I am so fed up with doomy statements from the AI leaders. I may have lost my patience with it. The latest instance is the BBC’s report that Evan Hubinger, who leads alignment science at Anthropic, believes there is a “greater than 10% chance” that AI could “kill all humans” within the next decade. The occasion … Read more
https://commbox.org, the online database on international communication in the Global South with over 30,000 entries, has recently been launched. The site has a small section on Media Anthropology (65 titles), but you will find materials on Digital Cultures (80 publications), Culture & Media (392 titles) and on Nonwestern Communication Approaches (195 publications) as well. Explore … Read more
I guess I am getting nostalgic. I have started watching my childhood favorite TV show, Knight Rider. It took decades to have self-driving cars. Contemporary critical reception Many mainstream TV critics in the 1980s dismissed Knight Rider as shallow and gimmicky.[2][1] Reviews often called it “silly,” “juvenile,” or “trash TV,” focusing on the implausible talking … Read more
My TV Turkish Serials Subreddit receives more than 95 thousand visits weekly, and my colleague Alper Kırklar and I decided to curate an edited volume on Turkish Television Series. The series’ global attraction is definitely unintended, but all over the world, I come across people asking me about a particular Turkish series. So here we … Read more
Just revised my stuff and decided to assign readings below. I hope we will have a productive semester. I will need to polish it up a bit but this will give you a sense of what we are up to this semester;) MED 521 Cyber Anthropology for Media Studies is a course designed for Media … Read more
Media and social changing since 1979: a diachronic ethnography of media and actual social changes