Track: Agora 1

Algorithms don’t decide, corporate decisions and people do. In this workshop, the participants will go through a journey of exploration to identify issues effecting the society in the internet ecosystem and the technical, social and policy-work behind it that made it possible. Handan Uslu is a mechanical engineer, painter, and founder of Turkey’s first Internet… Continue reading Listen: Investigating Internet ecosystem

This workshop is primarily designed to draw attention to some of the major obstacles that applies to the communicators of “important but traiditionally boring stuff” and what we learned along the way on how to hack them. The world is a hot mess and the trust towards mainstream media is at historic lows. An ordinary… Continue reading Listen: Storifying the important

Vira DG is a Ukrainian VR and AR artis. With a background in painting cars Vira has translated her understanding of paining 3D in the physical realm and moved that to digital spaces. How to preserve digital cultural heritage with blockchain tools? In the workshop you will learn how to create a and manage a… Continue reading Do: Mint your own NFT

Erkan Saka is an Associate Professor at the School of Communication, Istanbul Bilgi University. He teaches on New Media Cultures and Cyber Anthropology. The digital landscape is constantly evolving and Erkan is curiously following the development. In this workshop he will introduce you to some new tools that can be interesting for journalists and self… Continue reading Try: What is new in the digital landscape

Who knows most about media history and the current situation about media in the Black Sea region. For example how many journalist are in Turkish jails right now?