Author: Ahmet A. Sabancı
How I Work Right Now (June 2020)
I’m always interested in reading how people work, what type of workflows they have. It’s probably because for so long I felt like I didn’t really have one or the ones I tried didn’t stick with me too long. Now I know why that was the case but it deserves its own post (spoilers: it…
Talking About “End of Capitalism” at Recovery Con
Let’s start thinking about how we can make the world better as we move from pandemic and quarantine into whatever comes next. Recovery Con is something Willow decided to give it a shot around the end of March, when it was clear that we’re in this for the long run. It’s going to be all…
NLTR Dijital Akademi’de Güvenlik ve Gelecek Dersleri
Pandeminin etkisiyle birçok şeyin dijitale taşınması kaçınılmaz olarak bize de yansıdı. NewsLabTurkey ve onun parçası olan NLTR Akademi olarak biz de dijital eğitim ve webinar formatını kullanmaya ve kendimizi bu noktada geliştirmeye başladık. Bir önceki webinar serimizin ardından NLTR Dijital Akademi’ye önümüzdeki hafta başlıyoruz. Bu eğitim serisi önceki sürdürülebilirlik konseptinin dışına çıkarak daha geniş bir…
Welcome to the New Bleak… What Now?
This is the sentence that’s been circling inside my head for a while now. Not that I was thinking that everything was going great so far —hell, I call the things I’m writing and thinking about “weird and deadly interesting” so no rose-tinted glasses here. But it’s clear that we took a huge step towards…
Quaranzine
There are some new and good things coming out of all of the mess we’re in. Quaranzine is one of them. A small, weekly PDF zine with a special topic for every issue. First one was panic, latest one is boredom. From the Gumroad page: A weekly zine born out of quarantine—from the Bay Area…
Late Capitalism with A Smile
There are some photos which has a weird effect on you. Half of you wants to write thousands of words about it but your other half is just speechless. Here’s one of those: Another one if you need a close-up: There’s so much to unpack in these photos: care packages for elderly delivered in boxes…
From Useful Idiots to Useful Facts: What Is Behind the Fake News Debate?
My first major academic publication is available now. It’s a book chapter written by me and Sarphan Uzunoğlu, titled “From Useful Idiots to Useful Facts: What Is Behind the Fake News Debate?”. It’s part of the book Information Nightmare: Fake News, Manipulation and Post-Truth Politics in the Digital Age, edited by Tirşe Erbaysal Filibeli. Here’s…
Rethinking How I Use Internet: 6
It’s been a while since I wrote in this blogchain. And during this time, I relapsed quite a bit. Especially after all the events going around the world. But this is a good time (at least for time) to restart this conversation. The main thing is, for many different reasons, what many people consider as…