transmedia

Erkan Saka: Transmedya?yı eğitime uyarlama denemesi

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Bu yazı T24 için yazılmıştı ama orada hala yayınlanmadığı için buradan yayına sokuyorum;) Transmedya?yı eğitime uyarlama denemesi Transmedya kavramını ilk olarak Henry Jenkins?in artık başucu kitabı olmak üzere olan  ?Convergence Culture? kitabında farkettim. Kavram ilk olarak orada kullanılmıyor ama kavramın yeni medya çalışmalarında yaygınlaşmasına en çok katkıda bulunan eserlerden birisi bu olsa gerek.   Kavram … Read more

New study on Sexting

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Medvedev Tweets from FP Passport by Joshua Keating

Twitter stumbles as Medvedev visits

from FT.com – World, Europe
The Russian president, who is touring Silicon Valley companies, sends his first ‘tweet’ from the offices of the messaging service, which is struggling with outages because of usage spikes during the World Cup

“Sexting”: legal and practical issues

from Berkman Center Newsfeed by syoung

The Berkman Center is pleased to share our Youth and Media Policy Working Group Initiative’s latest document, which addresses legal and practical issues related to the practice colloquially known as sexting:

Sexting: Youth Practices and Legal Implications (PDF)

The document was prepared by Harvard Law School’s Cyberlaw Clinic, based at the Berkman Center, for the Risky Behaviors and Online Safety cluster of the Youth and Media Policy Working Group Initiative. It is intended to provide background for discussion of interventions related to sexting. It begins with a definition of sexting, and continues with overviews of research and media stories related to sexting. It then discusses the statutory and constitutional framework for child pornography and obscenity. It concludes with a description of current and pending legislation meant to address sexting.

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Saskia Sassen on Immigration [and a roundup]

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Immigration: control vs governance, Saskia Sassen

from open Democracy News Analysis – by Saskia Sassen

The United States has resorted to fairly extreme state action in order to control undocumented immigrants. This is a long history, with ups and downs. The current phase of strong-state action began in the 1990s with Bill Clinton. But the US is not alone. Some of the most powerful states in the world ? Britain, France, Italy – have increasingly reoriented large parts of their state bureaucracy to control, detect, stop, detain, and deport basically vulnerable and powerless migrants. These states have been willing to sacrifice major and minor laws, and more generally the spirit of the law – one of the most valued achievements of collective history in the west. They have sacrificed the civil liberties of their citizenry in order (supposedly) to control foreigners.

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