Ello Cofounder Doesn’t Think Facebook Is a Social Network Mashable! by Karissa Bell Ello, the independent, invitation-only and ad-free social network that went viral almost overnight, is often compared to Facebook. Indeed, the still-nascent social network has already gained a reputation as the “anti-Facebook.” Everything you need to know about Ello, the latest trendy social network … Read more
Statement on the Use of Finfisher by Members of the Freedom Online Coalition EFF.org Updates by Jillian York Documents recently released by WikiLeaks have brought new evidence to the public eye that the intrusive surveillance spyware FinFisher may be in use by several members of theFreedom Online Coalition, including Mongolia, Netherlands, and Estonia.1 If this … Read more
The AK Party’s social media strategy: controlling the uncontrollable The AK Party seems to have taken the same approach to social media as it took to traditional media. Instead of a long-term social media production strategy, the party seems to prefer containing social media externally. This will not deter many users, who are skilled at … Read more
From reddit to Pornhub, Websites Slow Down for Net Neutrality on September 10 EFF.org Updates by rainey Reitman You know the net neutrality conversation is breaking new ground when even the porn sites are weighing in. And that’s just what we’re seeing: Major adult platforms Pornhub and Redtube are joining an online protest on September 10, calling for stronger … Read more
Self-segregation on social networks and the implications for the Ferguson, MO story …My heart’s in Accra by Ethan Michael Brown was fatally shot by police officer Darren Wilson on Saturday August 9, 2014. After his body lay in the hot street for four hours, Ferguson residents took to the streets to protest his killing. Brown’s death, the … Read more
No VPN on Earth Can Protect Careless Pirates TorrentFreak Last year, Philip Danks, a man from the West Midlands, UK, went into a local cinema and managed to record the movie Fast and Furious 6. He later uploaded that content to the Internet. After pleading guilty, this week Wolverhampton Crown Court sentenced him to an unprecedented33 … Read more
Turkish deputy PM slams women ‘having vacation without husbands’ Bülent Arınç defends his criticism against ‘laughing women’ with a puzzling complaint about ‘pole climbers’ Spam messages reign in Turkish presidential hopefuls’ campaigns Turkey’s presidential hopefuls have continued campaigning by sending text messages to mobile phone users Turks Divided on Erdogan and the Country’s Direction pewglobal.org – Jul 30, 2:55 … Read more
I still don’ t get it what Fousquare does. It should have kept Foursquare and integrate new functions instead of creating Swarm. I feel like they themselves are destroying their good brand. Propaganda Is the New Frontier for Fake Social Media Accounts Mashable! by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai Fake social media accounts are spreading pro-Chinese propaganda on Twitter, disseminating … Read more
The US military runs studies on Twitter, Facebook and Reddit to learn how to counter propaganda The Next Web by Josh Ong In light of Facebook’s disconcerting emotion experiment, The Guardian has published an in-depth look at the US military’s own research efforts to understand and influence social media. DARPA, the Department of Defense’s tech research … Read more
Global Voices: Murder Trial of Slain Protester in Turkey Live-Tweeted P24: Deutsche Welle BOBS ödülleri ardından? VivaHiba: SosyalKafa?nın 3. Sezonu biterken İnternet Televizyonculuğu üzerine notlar
Twitter Stock Drops to New Low as User Growth Disappoints Wall Street Here we go again. Twitter Tops 250 Million Users, But Stock Tanks 10% Mashable! by Seth Fiegerman Twitter beat earnings and revenue estimates for the first quarter, but users numbers came in at the low end of Wall Street estimates … Read more
This piece was written more than a month ago for a monthly magazine. For some reasons, maybe because of my sloppy style, it wasn’t published. It still has some validity so here it is: AKP?s Social Media Strategies and Counter-Moves AKP?s Social Media Strategies and Counter-Moves This essay is an attempt to outline … Read more
Q&A: Engin Önder and Zeynep Tufekci on 140journos and the state of journalism in Turkey Nieman Journalism Lab Engin Önder is not a journalist, and he?ll be the first to tell you that. (?No way,? he said, laughing, when I asked.) Instead, Önder, who cofounded the Turkish citizen journalism platform 140journos, considers himself a citizen … Read more
Watch ‘Guardian’ Editors Destroy Edward Snowden Files With two British spies supervising, three employees of the Guardian used angle grinders and a drill to destroy three laptops containing the files leaked to the news organization by Edward Snowden. Social media transforms lessons Is social media set to kill schoolbooks? So it looks like Google … Read more
Google Puts Over 57,000 Works of Art on the Web The Brave New World of Academic Censorship Last week, the Kansas Board of Regents, a nine-member governing body that controls six state universities and some 30 community and technical colleges, voted unanimously to approve a new policy that gives each institution?s ?chief executive officer? … Read more