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140journos, a civil disobedience. By the influence of the Internet and the other digital technologies, not only the quality of the content producers, but also the habits of the news collecting have started to become diversified. At the level achieved so far, only with a mobile device that has an Internet access, one can share news instantly and rapidly, individuals and communities can access and release news without any need for the mainstream media. As in the cases of mass movements such as Arab Spring and Occupy, the monopoly of the maistream media can be broken down. 140journos is a counter media movement that advocates free journalism as a reaction to the concept of filtered and censored news reporting of the traditional media. 140journos, which started live news reporting based on Twitter on January 19, 2012, has released fast and impartial news content to its followers through the events not covered enough and physically observed by the mainstream media. They have taken the pulse of the events through live broadcasting and photographs as well as the interviews made on the scene. It was considered as the examplary practice of citizen journalism in Turkey by many academicians, activists and artists. We have decided to publicize and anonymize the broadcast having been conducted so far together with the voluntary reporters based on Twitter by releasing 140journos’s smartphone and tablet computer application to the use of the followers. We have aimed at supporting the objective news reporting and the right to access impartial news mentioned in the United Nations Human Rights Convention. Therefore, the 140journos movement has attempted to spread the citizen journalism across Turkey. The 140journos movement has targetted to fundamentally transform the media atmosphere raising social awareness through informing every society sector of any independent, unfiltered and rapid news by means of its mirrorlike objective approach. To achieve this target, 140journos will attempt to take advantage of the crowdfunding system in order to develop a citizen journalism application to be downloaded into all the smartphones and tablet computers free of charge.

The mobile application being developed will help 140jurnos’s original dream of setting up a publically adopted and financed news agency to come true by terminating the unavoidable dependency on the mainstream media, which is directed by the corporate advertisers’ demands, turning a deaf ear to the social problems and events and already announcing its collapse due to their unethical approaces. The fact that the news releasing agency is a big holding or institution and the news follower has turned out to be a passive consumer has been losing its functionality. Twitter, whose influence has recently been increasing, has formed a suitable model for disseminating short and easily consumed content. Starting out with this model, 140journos has been developing a mobile application and an additional website appropriate for the news receiving habits of the new generation. In addition to the 140-character long entries provided by Twitter, the new applicaiton will facilitate the spreading of the individually collected content having the news quality, which also includes the audio and video recording feature. Despite the fact that the intitutionalized journalism whose news can hardly be corrected is difficult and expensive, citizen journalism has been giving the privilage of being the first to access the news impartially. In order to prevent the possible news pollution, this newest application of 140journos will be providing the news receivers with the news coming from the reporters whose locations are already checked through the mobile smartphones. Furthermore, the users inhabiting or walking around the news scene will have the opportunity to witness the scene and to correct, change and update any part of the news as in the example of the content creation in Wiki model.

As for what 140journos means, the 140 reference in our name reflects the 140 character limit of Twitter posts. One important point we want to draw your attention to is that the only thing that is limited in this movement is the number of character in a tweet. Journalism, as it is, is truly illimitable.

Bianet, one of the independent news sources followed by Turkey's well-known activists, scholars and academicians also covered the 140journos movement (in English): http://bianet.org/english/freedom-of-expression/135759-140journos-a-counter-media-movement#

The Christian Science Monitor's interview entitled "Turks turn to Twitter as Erdogan muzzles traditional media" with 140journos: http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2012/0723/Turks-turn-to-Twitter-as-Erdogan-muzzles-traditional-media

The official accounts that you can follow 140journos on social media platforms are listed below:
http://twitter.com/140journos
http://soundcloud.com/140journos

[TR]
140journos, bir sivil itaatsizlik. Internet ve diger dijital teknolojilerin etkisiyle yalnizca icerik ureticilerinin niteligi degil, haber toplama aliskanliklari da farklilasmaya basladi. Bugun geldigimiz noktada, internet erisimi olan bir mobil cihaz haricinde hicbir yatirim gerektirmeden hizlica haber paylasilabilmekte, kisiler ve topluluklar ana akima ihtiyac duymaksizin haber alip verebilmekte, Arap Bahari ve Occupy gibi kitlesel hareketlerde oldugu uzere geleneksel medyanin tekeli kirilabilmektedir. 140journos; geleneksel medyanin filtreli habercilik anlayisina tepki olarak ozgur haberciligi savunan bagimsiz bir karsi medya hareketi. 19 Ocak 2012 tarihinde Twitter merkezli yayin hayatina baslayan 140journos, anaakim medyanin bulunmadigi veya yeterince islemedigi olaylardan takipcilerine hizli ve tarafsiz haber icerigi sundu. Alandan roportajlar, fotograflar ve canli yayinlarla olaylarin nabzini tuttu. Bircok gazeteci, aktivist ve akademisyen tarafindan Turkiye’nin ornek vatandas haberciligi girisimi olarak gosterilen 140journos, hareketi anonimlestirmek ve vatandas haberciligini tum Turkiye’ye yaymak icin kollari siviyor. Bagimsiz, filtresiz, hizli haber sunmayi, tarafsiz yaklasimiyla toplumun her kesimini olan her seyden haberdar ederek toplumsal farkindaligi arttirmayi ve medya atmosferini kokunden degistirmeyi amaclayan 140journos; tum akilli telefon ve tablet bilgisayarlara ucretsiz olarak indirilebilecek bir vatandas haberciligi uygulamasi (application) gelistirmek uzere calismalarini surduruyor. 140journos’un mobil uygulamasinin reklam bagimlisi politikalarla sekillenen, kurulus ve kisiler tarafindan kontrol edilen, toplumsal sorunlari gormezden gelebilen, etik disi yaklasimlarla artik cokusunu ilan eden ana akim medyaya olan zorunlu bagimliliga son vererek halka ait bir haber ajansi kurulmasi icin kullanilmasi amaclaniyor.

Haber verenin buyuk bir holding ya da kurum, haber alanin ise pasif bir tuketici oldugu sistem, islevselligini giderek kaybediyor. Son birkac senedir etkisini giderek artiran Twitter, kisa ve kolay tuketilebilir iceriklerin yayilmasi icin verimli bir model olusturmustu. 140journos, bu modelden hareketle yeni neslin haber alma ihtiyacina uygun bir mobil uygulama ve uygulamaya ek olarak bir web sitesi gelistiriyor. Twitter’in sundugu 140 karakterlik metin girisinin yani sira bu yeni uygulamanin 140 saniyelik ses ve video kaydi gibi ozellikleri, bireyler tarafindan olusturulan ve haber degeri tasiyan icerigin yayilimini kolaylastiriyor. Haberi dogrulatmanin zor ve pahali oldugu kurumsal gazetecilige karsin vatandas haberciligi kullanicilara her seyi ilk ve tarafsiz ogrenen olma ayricaligi sunuyor. 140journos’un bu yeni uygulamasinda olasi bir bilgi kirliligini onlemek icin haberler yalnizca konum bazli dogrulamasi yapilabilen mobil cihazlar uzerinden yapilabiliyor. Bunun yani sira olay yerinin cevresindeki kullanicilar, tanik olma ve olusturulan haber uzerinde Wiki modeli esas alinarak tekzip ve guncelleme niteliginde degisiklik yapabilme ozellikleri de dusunuldu.

140journos, hemen hemen tum mevcut sosyal medya araclarini kullanarak gercek zamanli web ile bu teknolojinin haberciligin gelecegi uzerindeki etkileri arastirmayi amaclamaktadir. Ismindeki “140”, Twitter’in girilerdeki 140 karakter sinirini; “journos” ise “gazeteciler” sozcugunun Ingiliz argosundaki karsiligini ifade etmektedir.

140journos hareketiyle ilgili Kanal 24'te yayinlanan roportaj:

140journos ekibi BJK TV'de yayinlanan sosyalkafa programinin konuguydu:

Turkiye'nin taninmis aktivistleri, aydinlari ve akademisyenleri tarafindan en sik takip edilen haber kaynaklarindan biri olan Bianet de 140journos hareketini bir makale ile okurlarina tanitti. Okumak icin, http://bianet.org/bianet/medya/135737-140journos-bir-karsi-medya-hareketi

28 Nisan 2012 tarihli Radikal gazetesi 140journos'un yurttas gazeteciligi anlayisini isledi: http://www.radikal.com.tr/Radikal.aspx?aType=RadikalDetayV3&ArticleID=1086297&CategoryID=77

140journos'un The Christian Science Monitor'a verdigi demec: http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2012/0723/Turks-turn-to-Twitter-as-Erdogan-muzzles-traditional-media

Yaratici Fikirler Enstitusu'nden Engin Onder, 140journos vatandas haberciligi hareketini temsilen Eksi Sozluk kurucusu Sedat Kapanoglu, Bobiler kurucusu Ozan Tuzun, UNC'den yardimci profesor Zeynep Tufekci ve gazeteci Serdar Akinan'in ile birlikte 7 Mayis 2012 tarihinde Bilgi Universitesi'nde Turkiye Bilisim Vakfi Baskani Faruk Eczacibasi moderatorlugunde gerceklestirilen "Internetin Yaramaz Cocuklari" panelinde konusmaci olarak yer aldi. Panelin video kaydi:

140journos, internet televizyonu Kumanda Tv'nin internet girisimleriyle ilgili "Site Sakinleri" programinda gelistirmekte oldugu vatandas haberciligi mobil uygulamasini anlatiyor.

Yaratici Fikirler Enstitusu ve 140journos ekibinin, 140journos projesi ve 30 Haziran 2012 tarihinde Galata Kuledibi'nde duzenlenen SOCIAL/IST 2012 Sosyal Medya Gunu etkinligi ile ilgili Acik Radyo'ya verdigi mulakat:

140journos hareketini sosyal medya platformlarinda takip edebileceginiz adresler su sekildedir:
http://twitter.com/140journos
http://soundcloud.com/140journos

[Crew/Ekip]
Cem Aydogdu
cem@yaraticifikirlerenstitusu.com
Safa Soydan
safa@yaraticifikirlerenstitusu.com
Engin Onder
engin@yaraticifikirlerenstitusu.com
Ogulcan Ekiz
ogulcan@yaraticifikirlerenstitusu.com

Special Thanks/Tesekkurler
Ece Temelkuran, Banu Guven, Elif Ilgaz, Kumru Baser, Hilmi Hacaloglu, Efkan Bolac, Esra Arsan, Erkan Saka, Ismail Hakki Polat, Ismail Saymaz, Engin Bas, Zeynep Tufekci

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