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journalism in times of mega crises

Among the numerous things that are of concern about the new surge of authoritarianism around the world with the measures put in place against the Covid19 global pandemic, is the case of journalism today. Border closures and measures restricting mobility are already impacting physical access in many regions of the world. In places where the governments were already infamous for curtailing freedom of speech and actions of journalists, the protection…

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April 2, 2020
Research Notes

“god is greatest,” and the question of the legitimate use of images of atrocities

I attended a conference in Berlin as audience where the language of the conference was English and most presenters were graduate students from the research institution which organized the conference. One of the presenters showed a video clip from a street footage of an atrocity that took place somewhere in North Africa, which could have taken place anywhere during an upheaval. The video was taken with a cell phone by…

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January 30, 2020
Open Source / Türkçe

digiKam kullanma kılavuzu

digiKam fotoğraf düzenleme programı Ucuz ve taşınabilir fotoğraf makinalarından sonra yaygınlaşan akıllı cep telefonları sayesinde, istediğimiz yerde ve ışık altında, sayı limiti neredeyse olmaksızın fotoğraf ve video çekebiliyoruz. Aramızda fotoğrafla meslek olarak meşgul olanlarımız hariç, cihazlarımızda ya da bulutta biriken, aklımıza gelirse bilgisayarımızın sabit diskine kaydettiğimiz fotoğraflarla ne yapacağımızı pek bilemiyoruz. Yine aramızda dosya yönetimi ve düzenleme sistemlerine aşina olanlar belki bu fotoğrafları ve video dosyalarını, belli bir mantık sistemine…

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January 20, 2020
Read more about the article Açık kaynak kodlu, özgür yazılımlar ve diğerleri
masaüstü: sistem ayarları, yazılım yöneticisi ve mönü penceleri açık halde
Open Source / Türkçe

Açık kaynak kodlu, özgür yazılımlar ve diğerleri

Öneri listesine atlamak için tıklayın. Bağlı bulunduğum üniversitedeki akademik grupla ziyaret ettiğim Tokyo Ulusal Müzesi’nde bizim gibi gelen gruplara Microsoft Office kullanarak sunum yapıldığını gördüğümde çok şaşırmıştım: “Koskoca Japonya, o kadar teknoloji üretebiliyorken neden yazılım üretmeyip kamu parasını Microsoft'a akıtıyor?” diye merak etmiştim. Aynı şey Almanya ve diğer teknoloji üretmekte ileri başka ülkeler için de geçerli. Kamu kaynaklarının, özgür yazılımları ihtiyaçlarına göre dönüştürmek veya sıfırdan yenisini üretmeye aktarmak yerine monopoli…

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February 25, 2019
Read more about the article Poems that travel like seeds from trees
Talking about Trees (dir. Suhaib Gasmelbari, 2019)
Film

Poems that travel like seeds from trees

It has been two months since the people in Sudan started a widespread protest against against corruption and for dignity, against the regime of al-Bashir who is running the country since he came to power with a military coup in 1989. At first, the western mainstream media focused on the spike of price of bread and oil as the motive behind the protests, which is not false, but it seems…

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February 18, 2019
Read more about the article Conference on Photographies and Conflict
Famagusta Gate, Nicosia – November 2018
Conference

Conference on Photographies and Conflict

Recently, I attended a conference on photographies and conflict that was organized by the International Association of Photography & Theory in Nicosia, Cyprus at the end of November 2018. It was the fifth conference of the association and it was titled "Photographies and Conflict: Archiving and Consuming Images of Strife". I attended the conference as a presenter and I was very happy to meet with many scholars who are working…

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December 12, 2018
Read more about the article Filming Revolution – A Meta-Documentary Book/Website on Filmmaking in Egypt
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Filming Revolution – A Meta-Documentary Book/Website on Filmmaking in Egypt

I used to imagine composite mediums when I was a teenager, when I was an unashamed daydreamer. One of these was a book with notes to inform the reader with the exact intonation and melody to read the dialogues. So it would be a text but with a superimposed notation, that can include musical notation as well, such that reading would be both reading the text and singing the melody.…

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November 25, 2018
Conference

Revisiting Archive

Revisiting Archive In the Aftermath of Revolution was the title of the symposium on hosted by the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) in Berlin on October 26-28, organized by the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC) in association with the research program Europe in the Middle East - the Middle East in Europe (EUME). The symposium brought together historians, archivists, artists, collectors and story-tellers to address the question…

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October 28, 2018