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- Introduction pp. 1-13 | DOI: 10.1353/jmw.2012.0020 Adi Kuntsman, Noor Al-Qasimi
From Homoerotics of Exile to Homopolitics of Diaspora: Cyberspace, the War on Terror, and the Hypervisible Iranian Queer pp. 14-40 | DOI: 10.1353/jmw.2012.0022 Sima Shakhsari
The Egyptian Blogosphere: Policing Gender and Sexuality and the Consequences for Queer Emancipation pp. 41-62 | DOI: 10.1353/jmw.2012.0024 Grant Walsh-Haines
“Coming Out of the Internet”: Lesbian and Gay Activism and the Internet as a “Digital Closet” in Turkey pp. 63-88 | DOI: 10.1353/jmw.2012.0025 Serkan Gorkemli
Efféminés, Gigolos, and MSMs in the Cyber-Networks, Coffeehouses, and “Secret Gardens” of Contemporary Tunis pp. 89-112 | DOI: 10.1353/jmw.2012.0026 Rodney Collins
Queer Beirut Online: The Participation of Men in Gayromeo.com pp. 113-137 | DOI: 10.1353/jmw.2012.0027 Mathew Gagné
WaWa Series p. 138 | DOI: 10.1353/jmw.2012.0028 Fatima Al Qadiri, Khalid al Gharaballi
The “Boyah” and the “Baby Lady”: Queer Mediations in Fatima Al Qadiri and Khalid Al Gharaballi’s Wawa Series (2011) pp. 139-142 | DOI: 10.1353/jmw.2012.0019 Noor Al-Qasimi
“israelis and Iranians, Get A Room!”: Love, Hate, and Transnational Politics from the “Israel Loves Iran” and “Iran Loves Israel” Facebook Campaigns pp. 143-154 | DOI: 10.1353/jmw.2012.0021 Adi Kuntsman, Sanaz Raji
Contributors pp. 155-157 | DOI: 10.1353/jmw.2012.0023
23rd August 2012
Reblogged From matryushka
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Most importantly, Mike Daisey wasn’t wrong that it is possible for Chinese authorities and Apple to substantially improve labor conditions — without making their products any more expensive or less competitive — and that American consumers can help make this happen. But he was wrong that embellishing his story would help, that bad behavior in service of a good cause ever does."
Max Fisher, The Atlantic. The Tragedy of Mike Daisey’s Lies About China.
(via futurejournalismproject)
The loosely organized hacker group known as Anonymous has Sony in its sights once again. After releasing a video a few days ago wherein they threaten to destroy Sony’s network, the group, which has been organizing in the IRC channel #OpSony, has clarified the meaning of their declaration. Unlike the infamous PlayStation Network hack of 2011, the target of this attack is not Sony’s customers or even the Playstation Network itself, but Sony’s executives.
As a direct response to Sony’s alignment with recent SOPA legislation, Anonymous intends to “dox” (find and expose personal information) about the company’s executives. The group has already begun to publicize some private information (including credit card numbers) and plans to continue releasing more and more information in as public a way as possible in the near future.
In addition to doxing, Anonymous has announced plans to attack and deface Sony’s websites with Internet memes altered to have an anti-SOPA message. The possibility of posting links to Sony’s copyrighted material, right on their own websites, has also been suggested.
That insight led to a generation of statistics-based language programs like Google Translate — and, not so incidentally, to new tools for breaking codes that go back to the Middle Ages.
Now a team of Swedish and American linguists has applied statistics-based translation techniques to crack one of the most stubborn of codes: the Copiale Cipher, a hand-lettered 105-page manuscript that appears to date from the late 18th century. They described their work at a meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics in Portland, Ore.
Discovered in an academic archive in the former East Germany, the elaborately bound volume of gold and green brocade paper holds 75,000 characters, a perplexing mix of mysterious symbols and Roman letters. The name comes from one of only two non-coded inscriptions in the document.
Kevin Knight, a computer scientist at the Information Sciences Institute at the University of Southern California, collaborated with Beata Megyesi and Christiane Schaefer of Uppsala University in Sweden to decipher the first 16 pages. They turn out to be a detailed description of a ritual from a secret society that apparently had a fascination with eye surgery and ophthalmology.
One of the cool things the article discusses is how important secret societies were in the 18th century. This book, for instance, had a political discussion about natural rights. The people who cracked this are also working on the Voynich manuscript, which they think has patterns that mirror natural languages. Overall, this is just really cool.
Wired.com’s homepage goes “black.”
The second best tribute we’ve seen. The best of course, is Boing Boing’s first-generation Mac tribute.
