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Erkan Saka

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Born
in Bayburt, Türkiye, Turkey
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Erkan Saka is a professor of media and journalism studies at the School of Communication at Istanbul Bilgi University. He was recently a research scholar at Anthropology, UC Irvine (Fall 2018) and Science and Technology Studies, MIT (Spring 2019). His recent and current research topics include AI Literacy, citizen journalism and social movements, online information fact-checking and verification issues, digital web archiving and internet histories. He is a longtime political blogger (erkansaka.net) and a coordinator of a local TV show on social media (sosyalkafa.net).

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“Pam replied that she was too old to worry about being cool, but in fact she did worry about it, and that’s one reason it was always nice to see Bobby, who was so uncool as to inhabit—in Pam’s mind—his own private condominium of coolness.”
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“Jim. If you have any other outside events, don’t confess them. That’s my advice, okay?”“What am I going to do, Bob? I have no family.”“You have family,” Bob said. “You have a wife who hates you. Kids who are furious with you. A brother and sister who make you insane. And a nephew who used to be kind of a drip but apparently is not so much of a drip now. That’s called family.”Jim fell asleep, his head leaning forward almost to his chest”
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