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The Need for Private Digital Places
Jul 2, 2020
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Ahmet A. Sabancı
in Not Defteri | Notebook, İnternet Notları | Notes From Internet, In English
Today Jay Owens wrote a really good Twitter thread on the problems of blaming private social places like Facebook and WhatsApp groups for everything. Which already explains so many of those problems but I want to focus on two specific sides of it. One of them is the fact that those who claim that private…
From Useful Idiots to Useful Facts: What Is Behind the Fake News Debate?
Apr 6, 2020
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Ahmet A. Sabancı
in Duyurular | Announcements, In English
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…