Here’s how over 400 journalists at dozens of news orgs reported out the massive Panama Papers story Nieman Journalism Lab by Ricardo Bilton Sunday’s report of the Panama Papers detailed a global, decades-long story of bribery, arms deals, tax evasion, and financial fraud that implicates over 100 politicians and public officials. Equally impressive, however, is project … Read more
High court?s Twitter verdict should be overturned: Turkish PM Hurriyet Daily News Reiterating his government?s harsh criticisms against the Constitutional Court?s ruling lifting a ban on Twitter, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has called the ruling wrong Social media firms evade tax: Turkish finance minister Hurriyet Daily News Social media companies yield undeserved gains in … Read more
Opening Lines of 25 Famous Novels Dissected to Make an Awesome Poster Wired Top Stories Remember sentence diagramming? Turns out, it makes an awfully cool poster. Watch a ?Lost Interview? With Michel Foucault: Missing for 30 Years But Now Recovered Open Culture by Josh Jones An introductory shot that might be … Read more
SİYASET VE İLETİŞİMİN KESİŞİM NOKTASI OLARAK PROPAGANDA 09 Aralık 2013 Londra?da bulunan British Library (İngiliz Kütüphanesi) 17 Mayıs – 17 Eylül 2013 tarihleri arasında önemli bir sergiye ev sahipliği yaptı: ?Propaganda: İktidar ve İkna.? Siyaset ve iletişimin kesişim noktalarını araştırmak için gittiğim sergi, ?propagandanın altın çağı? 20. yüzyıl boyunca ve günümüzde çeşitli dünya devletlerince … Read more
via @cigdemmater Chomsky accuses Turkish daily of fabricating parts of interview Accusing Yeni Şafak, Chomsky published the original version to back up his claims Turkish daily admits to making up parts of Chomsky interview, releases alleged text Turkish daily Yeni Şafak released a statement Aug. 31 following controversy surrounding reporter Burcu Bulut?s interview with Noam … Read more
The 100 Best Sci-Fi Stories by Women Writers (Read 20 for Free Online) Since 2009, the organization VIDA: Women in the Literary Arts has sought to bring balance to the representation of female authors in the literary world. As revealed by the 2010controversy begun by author Jodi Picoult over the gushing treatment Jonathan Franzen?sFreedom received … Read more
Academic ?Social Network Sites?: Very Preliminary Impressions I have recently registered in three social network sites that were discussed in the listserv of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR), the three beingPronetos, Academici, and LinkedIn, two of which are primarily for academics. My initial, admittedly superficial reaction was: ?Web 2.0 is a good place to … Read more
Noam Chomsky Calls Postmodern Critiques of Science Over-Inflated ?Polysyllabic Truisms? To the delight and satisfaction of hundreds of our readers, we recently featured an interview in which Noam Chomsky slams postmodernist intellectuals like Slavoj Zizek and Jacques Lacan as ?charlatans? and posers. The turn against postmodernism has been long in coming, a backlash the political … Read more
Eco on Fascism When I was in high school I thought Utne Reader was the bees knees and one summer I even managed to stumble through Foucault?s Pendulum all the way to the end. Didn?t understand a goddamn thing, but Umberto Eco took on the mantle of intellectual superhero in my imagination. So picture the … Read more
Police hold Taksim under siege, continue raid on 5th day of protests The Turkish police?s crackdown against Taksim Gezi Park protesters continued on June 1, as clashes broke out in Istanbul‘s symbolic Istiklal Avenue and the Beşiktaş district. Raw: Police, Demonstrators Clash in Turkey Turkish police have let off tear gas and pressurized water against groups of … Read more
Some friends were absolutely excited about it as he was to attend free speech event in Istanbul Bilgi University. I was not so. Mr. Chomsky’s arguments are known, nothing new. That doesn’t mean I don’t disagree with most of his arguments but I wish an academic of such a calibre would invest more time on … Read more