One can confidently assume that we are living through minor exercises of Erdoğan’s Police State. Today there was no call for demonstrations in Taksim. It is now believed that this is state operation. At 19 no citizens showed up. But there was heavy police presence all over Taksim. at 19 the police entered streets close … Read more
Morning Brief: House Defeats Effort to Rein In NSA Surveillance House Defeats Effort to Rein In NSA Surveillance Top news: The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday narrowly defeated a bill that would have restricted how the National Security Agency (NSA) gathers phone records on millions of Americans. The 217-to-205 vote represented a victory for … Read more
UN and some international organizations have declared Internet as the main tool of freedom of expression and freedom of the press. Internet and social media are indispensable for the individual to progress, for the individual to take part in society and for a sustainable democracy. Around the whole world masses demand access to information, transparency and … Read more
Turkish PM urges ?so-called? new rulers of Egypt to release Morsi Turkish PM Erdoğan has again slammed the military overthrow of elected Egyptian President Morsi, raising his rhetoric against the countries that have shied away from describing the takeover as a ‘coup’ The Wikipedia War Over Egypt’s ‘Coup’ In recent days, the protests and clashes over the Egyptian military‘s July 3 … Read more
Venezuela, Nicaragua Offer Asylum to Snowden Edward Snowden might finally get what he’s been looking for: a safe haven to avoid facing justice in the United States. On Friday, the Presidents of both Venezuela and Nicaragua said they could offer the NSA whistleblower asylum. Ex-Russian spy Anna Chapman proposes to Snowden on Twitter NSA … Read more
The real reason Google wants to kill RSS Marco Arment: RSS represents the antithesis of this new world: it?s completely open, decentralized, and owned by nobody, just like the web itself. It allows anyone, large or small, to build something new and disrupt anyone else they?d like because nobody has to fly six salespeople out … Read more
Efendim bu gece 20-21 arasında şu adresten (http://www.netd.com/cafenetd) SosyalKafa’yı izleyebilirsiniz. Dilara Eldaş ile birlikte sunacağız bugünkü programı. Dilara Eldaş (@dilaraeldas) http://tr.linkedin.com/pub/dilara-elda%C5%9F/3a/a70/33a Konuklarımız: Ceren Sözeri (@cerensozeri) (http://tr.linkedin.com/in/cerensozeri) Ceren anaakım medya tarafından anaakım medya ve sosyal medya ilişkilerini yorumlayacak. Vedat Özdemiroğlu (@vedatozdemiro) (http://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vedat_%C3%96zdemiro%C4%9Flu) Vedat ile Gezi süreci üzerinden mizah konuşacağız… ************** BJK TV’den olaylı ama haklı bir … Read more
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
Since the end of May, thousands of protesters have taken to the streets across Turkey, using social media with great skill to propel their rebuke of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan forward. Day after day, the protesters have leaned on Twitter and other social platforms to spread information and organize demonstrations, spurring the masses into action … Read more
NSA leaks: US bugged EU offices & networks in DC An article in Der Speigel expands on the descriptions we’ve had of the Snowden/NSA leaks, and claims that the US planted bugs in the EU’s Washington offices and took over their internal computer network, intercepting its traffic. Fresh intelligence row over US ‘bugging’ … Read more
Thanks, But No: Social Media Refuses To Share With Turkey In its latest effort to rein in the country’s vibrant social media, Turkey says it has requested cooperation from Twitter and Facebook; they’re not playing ball. Protesters are embracing social media ? and the government has complained that such outlets won’t share user data with law … Read more
The making of Digg Reader Writing for Wired, Matt Homan Mat Honan on Betaworks’ race to build a replacement for Google Reader in just 90 days. If you are interested in a 35,000-ft view on how Web-based software is built, read this. Inside Digg’s new RSS Reader It wouldn’t be a sexy subject were … Read more
Aktuelles zur Krise in der Türkei – VOR ORT vom 20.06.2013 Elif Şenel im Gespräch mit Erkan Saka (Kommunikations- und Medienwissenschaftler) in Istanbul, Türkei
update: Standing Men and Women in Taksim Square are also being detained at the moment…. Governement working on draft to restrict social media in Turkey The Turkish government launched yesterday a study to restrict social media, an attempt that has been inspired. Report: Dozens detained in police raids in Turkey ANKARA, Turkey (AP) ? Turkish news reports … Read more
The wave of resistance which started at Gezi Park in Istanbul and spread all over Turkey once again clearly revealed the deep connection between real time communication of the social media and social movements. The social media became the genuine news source in an environment in which the mainstream media became the site of disinformation … Read more