Digital Discourse Database

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Taking a break from the news

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Newspaper | Washington Post
Date | 13.6.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | smartphone, technology-free, texting, youth
Summary | The author describes his vacation in Europe and notices a table of four Dutch teenagers in a café just talking to each other face to face like people used to do in the United States. No one was holding a smartphone, checking their messages, texting, posting something on social media or similar.
Image Description | Lake with hourses and boats.

How can women build better friendships? Start with the right words.

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Newspaper | Washington Post
Date | 11.6.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | research/study, social media, texting, threat
Summary | Linguist Deborah Tannen has just published her latest book about how women build their friendships through language. Communicating with friends and negotiating the terms of the friendship is fraught with risks especially now that social media lets one know exactly when one is being exluded from group activities. Texting also complicates our friendships.
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New ideas for treating concussions

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Newspaper | Washington Post
Date | 12.4.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | (mental) health, smartphone, texting
Summary | Doctors are looking into new ways to treat concussions and one of those ways is to stop texting or using a smartphone. Concussion-related headaches are often visually triggered so staring at a screen for hours like many people routinely do does not help heal from a concussion.
Image Description | Hands of a woman placing a football helmet on a boy's head.
Image Tags | female(s), hand(s), male(s)

I have seen the future, and it looks like chatbots

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Newspaper | Washington Post
Date | 18.4.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, marketing, texting
Summary | Chatbots are robots that simulate human conversations; they are becoming popular among retailers who use them for online shopping. For instance, Sephora and H&M have been using bots that help customers buy their products. Experts predict that bots will be at the center of our digital life in the future. People at Silicon Valley are now trying to develop new concepts to integrate bots into messaging apps.
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Go ahead with this Google-made goody for texting

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Newspaper | Washington Post
Date | 29.5.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | Google, texting
Summary | Google released a new product that could improve your texting life: Gboard. It is a new keyboard that lets users swipe to type, and it also has a buitl-in search bar. You can search for links, images, or GIFs and then share them in your text messages.
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A boyfriend's flirty texts with other women: Are they a glitch or a pattern?

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Newspaper | Washington Post
Date | 4.10.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | texting
Summary | Infidelity in texting is as hurtful as infidelity in person. A women laments about how her boyfriend texts flirtatiously with other women and how he somehow thought that was OK. They both check each other’s text messages regularly to maintain trust in the relationship. The flirtatious texting, even if it was just that and nothing else, was still perceived as very hurtful by the girlfriend.
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