A look back at the Govanhill Walking Tour held on 11 December 2025 in Glasgow. Govanhill is one of Glasgow’s most ethnically and culturally diverse neighbourhoods, while also experiencing some of the city’s highest levels of deprivation.

Looking back at the first public lecture of the Just City by the Med Research Network, co-organized with the Urban Studies and Social Policy (@uofgussp.bsky.social) Seminar Series at the University of Glasgow, which took place on 10 December 2025 in Glasgow.

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Our mini special issue (with @yusufy.bsky.social) is out 👇 Massive thanks to the journal editors, workshop participants and contributing authors! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Technology, Power & Society is out from Brill (avail. on Aug 7). With Sarper Durmuş, we also have a chapter on the perceptions of digital activists in Turkey toward privacy, its value and balancing priorities. Many thanks to the editors, reviewers and all the participants. brill.com/display/titl...

Domino Lectures 2025: Today, Rosalie Waelen (University of Bonn) will discuss the theories about justice as recognition and how we can apply these theories in the context of AI and human-technology relations. 🕖 7 pm (GMT+3) – Istanbul Time 🔗 us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/sWyBw9deTW-6G_2giioTLw#/

Today! TR time: 19.00 CET: 17.00 Zoom registration link: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... Domino Lectures are organized by Media & Communication Systems MA Program at Istanbul Bilgi University.

'Smart Cities, Smart Money: Unsmart or Commodified Citizens?' A few notes on the motivation and concern behind my latest work on commodification in smart urban solutions. medium.com/me/stats/pos... medium.com/me/stats/pos...

📢 My latest article on the ethics of commodification in #SmartCities is now out in Journal of Urban Affairs. I take certain forms of data utilization as commodificatory attitude and explore the social egalitarian concerns for smart urban development. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/YEPIV...

📢 #callforpapers IPCC 2024 “Beyond the Public-Private in Communication” A platform for early career researchers to reflect upon the public-private dichotomy in communication studies. We especially welcome case-dependent works #privacymatters > ipcc.bilgi.edu.tr

Some stuff on using text-generative AI tools in the context of higher education. "Embracing AI doesn’t mean diminishing the human touch or the unique standpoint the students bring. Over-policing is not the answer nor giving up the core values and ethos associated with higher education."

A new edited book on digital ethics is out and presumably will be influential. However almost no mention of datafication let alone its implications. Little disappointing to see the mountains between the applied ethicists and tech scholarship.

Given that the power is a privilege to denounce the responsibility that comes with it, and that friendships really blur such boundaries, friendly AI perspectives feel like the most detrimental ones hindering that responsibility. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10676-020-09556-w