How Fake News Shapes World Order
Abram’s book is a revealing account of how perception replaces reality by providing history, context, and analysis for a trend…
Elon Musk’s Twitter Saga and the Twitter Files Bombshell
With the Twitter Files’ revelations, Americans know the truth about how social media companies function on politics and national security.
Digital Power Politics: The US Digital Doctrine Is Evolving
Whoever dominates and governs the internet, governs the narrative and global trade.
Russia-Ukraine War Moves to Social Media
The pressure grows on social media platforms to deal in conformity with their government’s national interests while mitigating the financial…
What Has Social Media Done to Us? The Human Craving for Appreciation Gone Awry
If Wordsworth were here, he’d perhaps have rather written, “The digital world is too much with us.”
The “Foreign Agent” Law in Russia: A New Cold War on Journalists
According to Dmitriy Migalin, a former political journalist of the Russian federal media outlet which is likely to get the…
How Disinformation and Influence Operations Target Turkey
A recently published report on Twitter trends expose that at least 47% of local trends in Turkey and 20% of global…
Museum Diplomacy in the Digital Age
Natalia Grincheva’s Museum Diplomacy in the Digital Age presents online museums as places of modern cultural diplomacy and explores how…
Meet Your New Reality: Death to 2020 Is a Clever Political Satire
Death to 2020 is a cleverly written, well-executed, and well-produced TV show that reminds us of old-school satirical TV shows…
Watching Their Land Shrinking and Their Freedoms Restricted, Palestinians Take Initiative
Young Palestinians firmly believe that the only way out is to take things into their own hands.
A Clash with Silicon Valley is Inevitable: Social Media Giants Turn More Aggressive
With their embargo against Trump, tech giants intervened more visibly than ever before in the political system of their own…
Facebook’s Lawsuit against Israeli Spy Firm NSO Reveals Its Dirty Work
Facebook’s lawsuit offers a glimmer of hope to stop NSO’s unconstrained assault on the right to privacy and security in…
Social Networks, Mass Psychology and Lynch Culture
Social networks, which were initially introduced as the public spheres where different views can be expressed without any oppression and…
Is New Media Becoming a Threat to Democracy?
Facebook and Twitter abstain from engaging in cooperation on the subjects related to the sovereignty and security of states and…
Can You Hear Me Now? We Might Be Living in Echo Chambers on Social Media
What I come to after observing the wild race that we call social media is a question: Would it be…
We Live in a Chaotic Matrix of Perceptions: An Interview with Ali Saydam
The core of communication never changes. There is only one aim of communication: convince to change. The indication of convincing…
Lies, Damned Lies and Fake News
The advance of fake news and information is not a new phenomenon but the media by which it is being…
What Purpose does Social Media Serve?
In addition to Finkafe, Wirofon, a 100% Turkish software, is a freeware and cross-platform instant messaging service for smartphones, which…
