#KesinBilgi 23 Kasım’da şov başlıyor. Bilgi’de Yeni Medya Okulu Sertifika Programı

Yurttaş Gazeteciliği programımızı yeniledik, güncelledik ve 3. döneme yeni bir isim ve yeni hocalarla giriyoruz. Bir takım temel bilgiler. Sosyal Ağlarda #KesinBilgi etiketini kullanacağız. Buradan ve Facebook grubumuzdan gelişmeleri takip edebilirsiniz. Önümüzdeki günlerde tam program ve mikrositemiz de devreye girecek. Hem burada, yani EFD üzerinden hem de etiket ve grubumuzdan gerekli duyurular yapılacak. Programa kayıt için kurumsal … Read more

Occupy Wall Street Anniversary. A video. How NY police treats demonstrators…

OWS Anniversary from paul sullivan on Vimeo.

Technology, Not Law, Limits Mass Surveillance… Snowden in search of asylum.. Cyberculture roundup..

  Snowden claims to be ?unbowed,? ?free and able? to continue publishing NSA secrets In a letter sent to Ecuador, Edward Snowden claimed that he is able to continue his whistleblowing activities unabated, despite his current legal and physical limbo. Technology, Not Law, Limits Mass Surveillance Improved technology enabled the NSA?s mass surveillance programs. Future improvements will … Read more

Journalism roundup: Churnalism, Boston explosions aftermath…

Churnalism: discover when the “news” you’re reading is a press-release from Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow   Syrian Electronic Army takes credit for hacking AP Twitter account from FP Passport After the Associated Press tweeted, “Breaking: Two Explosions in the White House and Barack Obama is injured,” it literally took only seconds for people to … Read more

Ten Finalists for 2013 Man Booker International Prize…Jack Kerouac?s 30 Revelations for Writing Modern Prose

Ten Finalists for 2013 Man Booker International Prize Announced from Writerswrite.com’s Writer’s Blog The ten finalists for the fifth Man Booker International Prize have been announced. The prize is awarded every two years to a living author who has published fiction either originally in English or whose work is available in English as a translation. … Read more

An academicus roundup. A Brief Survey of Victorian Science Fiction, William Gibson on Internet Bohemias, Orhan Pamuk on fiction..

A Brief Survey of Victorian Science Fiction from Wondermark by David Malki ! At Chicon the other week, I moderated a panel on Victorian and Edwardian science fiction. I?ve read some of the classics ? Verne and Wells and so on ? but I was excited to moderate this panel because it meant I could … Read more

Carnegie’s interactive feature: “How do Americans View the World?”– Romney’s moment of loss— Occupy Wall Street Is Back—- The September 11 Digital Archive- An Americana roundup

One Year of Occupy. One Year of Journalist Arrests. from Boing Boing by Xeni Jardin Josh Stearns has been tracking “press suppression and journalist arrests,” which became a regular occurrence since the start of Occupy Wall Street on September 17, 2011. “As press, protesters and police converge in New York City for the one year … Read more

“The Dark Knight Rises” looks like an anti-Occupy movement statement…

  Yesterday, I could finally watch the latest Batman episode. The villain is  in no way an alternative to Joker. Some exotic scenes are added but they are not substantially integrated to the script and they are more like some Orientalist decorations. Sort of insulting now.. But worse is that the villain, Bane, starts an … Read more

The new capitalists by Fawaz Gerges/ Yale?s Open Courses/ Massive Courses, Massive Data and more.. Academic roundup

Massive Courses, Massive Data Harvard and MIT hope their free online courses will not only give learners access to top courses, but also give education researchers access to unprecedented pools of learning data. The new capitalists: Islamists’ political economy, Fawaz A Gerges from open Democracy News Analysis – by Fawaz A Gerges Islamist parties are … Read more

“Occupy economic anthropology” by BILL MAURER and an anthropology roundup

Unfortunately the article itself is not public. it has to be bought, i haven’t got myself yet… Occupy economic anthropology from Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute by BILL MAURER What does it mean to ?do? economic anthropology, now, in the wake of the financial crisis and the re-energizing of public discussion over the nature … Read more

Most buzzed universities on the Internet and an academic roundup… Occupy movement, Publishing industry and more..

25 Most-Buzzed Universities on the Internet from Mashable! by Zoe Fox The complete ranking of the top 25 are listed below. 1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2. Harvard University 3. University of Chicago 4. Columbia University 5. University of Wisconsin ? Madison 6. Cornell University 7. University of California ? Los Angeles 8. Stanford University … Read more

AJ the Stream: What’s next for Occupy Wall Street?

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Cyberculture roundup: Interpol crackdown on Anonymous; Google’s new privacy policy starts; Facebook Timeline… and more…

Record Labels Threaten the Open Internet, isoHunt Tells Court from TorrentFreak by Ernesto In 2010 a conglomerate of record labels ? including the ?Big Four? of Sony, EMI, Warner and Universal ? went after BitTorrent site isoHunt.   25 Alleged Anons Arrested in International Crackdown from Wired Top Stories by Quinn Norton Police in four … Read more

EFD end of the year posts: as TIME names “The Protester” 2011 Person of the Year, a roundup on Occupy movement…

TIME names “The Protester” 2011 Person of the Year by Xeni Jardin Identity, consumption, and the politics of food in the Occupy Wall Street movement from FoodAnthropology by agyoung by Alyson Young An excerpt from the upcoming January 2012 SAFN column for Anthropology News   ‘Occupy Wall Street is interesting from a sociological perspective’ Hindustan … Read more

New PEW report: Where people get information about restaurants..and a cyberculture roundup…

New Report: Where people get information about restaurants and other local businesses The internet is the source that people most rely on for material about the local business scene and search engines are particularly valued. Newspapers and word of mouth also rank high as sources. Part 1 » Restaurants, bars, and clubs Part 2 » … Read more