This week has been overwhelmingly busy. A few days ago, we met in Istanbul for the Istanbul session for our GRADE COST project. My colleague Ivo Furman did a fantastic job of organizing the ev...
https://erkansaka.net/2024/04/25/our-cost-meeting-in-istanbul/
Instead of questioning her in Istanbul, she was taken from her home and sent to Mersin. The alleged crime is that she made an interview with a person under investigation (!). Prof. Sirman is a ra...
https://erkansaka.net/2024/03/25/a-dear-mentor-colleague-nukhet-sirman-detained-yesterday/
We have been keeping a tab on Turkiye’s elections for years. The whole project is here. It needs a design overhaul, but the content is still valuable. It depends on students’ willingness to c...
https://erkansaka.net/2024/03/03/our-class-project-on-turkish-elections/
Academic Informatics conferences were led by “the father of Turkish Internet,” Mustafa Akgül. After his death in 2017, the annual conferences stopped after 2019. I was happy to hear that t...
Reflektif is an open-access journal published by Istanbul Bilgi University Press. You can access the special issue here. Our launching event is on YouTube now. Two reports from our AI literacy pr...
I just came back from Ankara. Sinem and I love Ankara, so whenever we have time, we stop by Ankara. This time, we mostly settled in Çankaya, in our favorite hotel, Hotel Jinnah- but unfortunatel...
It was the third documentary I appeared at BluTV. The first one was a short series on TikTok. The second one was a piece on sleep. Last week, a short video on OnlyFans content producers in Turkey...
I believe that the moment they changed their name from “Savage Minds” to “anthro{dendum}”, the decline started. Over-reliance on (political) correctness is a kind of (political) purism th...
https://erkansaka.net/2023/12/23/farewell-to-a-major-anthro-blog-anthrodendum/
We have organized a full-day event about “Artificial Intelligence for Social Good” at Istanbul Bilgi University. It was part of the AI Literacy Project, supported by Google Turkiye. The meeti...
https://erkansaka.net/2023/12/07/our-ai-for-social-good-event-at-bilgiofficial/
Last week I was in Eskişehir attending the 5th New Media Studies Conference. The conference is organized by an association, Alternatif Bilişim Derneği. I have been a member from the outset. Th...
https://erkansaka.net/2023/11/23/a-conference-in-eskisehir-a-workshop-in-ankara/