Digital Discourse Database

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Instagram is using artificial intelligence to silence trolls and spammers

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Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 29.6.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Instagram, threat
Summary | Instagram is using artificial intelligence to spot and block offensive comments.
Image Description | Photograph of a finger touching the Instagram app on a screen, white heart on a colorful background, and screenshot of the 'comment settings' option.
Image Tags | hand(s), Instagram, smartphone

Internetstars mit Jöö-Faktor

(Internet stars with aaaaw factor)

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Newspaper | Tages-Anzeiger
Date | 2.12.2017
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | Instagram, marketing
Summary | A Swiss Instagram account is increasing popular with thousands of regular likes. It is called "Mr.Mrs.Aliu" and showcases a young Swiss family with an Albanian migration background. They are a simple, working class family and they share their wedding and holiday pictures on Instagram. Recently they have also shared an image of their newborn daughter and her nursery with links to the shops where one could buy the same furniture.
Image Description | Instagram posts showing a man and a pregnant woman, a nursery, as well as a map showing where the couple lives.
Image Tags | female(s), Instagram, male(s)

Where, Oh Where, Has My Little Dog Gone? Refresh Your Feeds

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Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 13.5.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | Facebook, Instagram
Summary | Facebook, Instagram, and co. have revolutionized finding lost pets. Pet owner can be reunited with their dogs and cats minutes after they post on social media. The broad public is very eager to share images of lost pets on social media and this can help find lost pets much more frequently and quickly than ever before.
Image Description | Images of an Instagram-famous dog with another found dog and his owner.
Image Tags | Instagram, male(s)

Viva la Instagram! Photo sharing app will automatically translate foreign-language posts automatically

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Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 23.6.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | Instagram, translation
Summary | Instagram has announced an update that will allow its users to translate posts in foreign languages.
Image Description | Instagram logo next to a collage of the word "Hello" in different languages, two young women lying down and taking a selfie, screenshot of an Instagram post displaying the "see translation" option
Image Tags | female(s), Instagram, selfie, smartphone

China Disrupts WhatsApp Service in Online Clampdown

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Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 18.7.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | censorship, Facebook, Google, Instagram, privacy, threat, Twitter, WhatsApp
Summary | The Chinese government has partly shut down the use of WhatsApp within their borders. The app is widely used around the globe and was used by some in China do communicate with people outside of Chine with end-to-end encryption. Other popular social media platforms and internet sites like Google, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram are blocked under the "Great Firewall" in China.
Image Description | Woman using a smartphone and women standing in front of Facebook and Instagram logos as well as emojis.
Image Tags | emojis, Facebook, female(s), Instagram, logo, smartphone

Geschichten eines Bilderstürmers

(Stories of an image stormer)

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Newspaper | Die Zeit
Date | 21.4.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | Facebook, Instagram, selfie
Summary | Instagram creator Kevin Systrom has created the most popular image-sharing social media platform world-wide. In Systrom's vision, Instagram could partly play the role that traditional news media pla today. To report of significant events as they are enfolding. Already, Instagram posts are printed in newspapers if no reporter was present on site. Facebook has bought the company for one billion dollars.
Image Description | Instagram creator Kevin Systrom with smartphones taking pictures of him.
Image Tags | Instagram, male(s), smartphone

Papst gibt auf Instagram Einblicke in sein Leben

(The pope gives insights into his life on Instagram)

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Newspaper | Welt
Date | 20.3.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | Instagram
Summary | Pope Francis is the first pope to create an Instagram account. He was known to appreciate digital communication and images as very powerful media to engage with one another. To create his account, he even received a visit from the CEO of Instagram.
Image Description | Pope Francis' Instagram posts (a picture and a video) and one Instagram post about it by Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom.
Image Tags | Instagram, male(s)

Instagram ranked worst social network for young people's mental health

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Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 19.5.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | (mental) health, addiction, Instagram, research/study, youth
Summary | Recent studies show that young adults aged 14 to 24 find that Instagram and Snapchat incease their sense of anxiety and loneliness the most. The most positivity boosting platforms were YouTube and Twitter. Mental health professionals are trying to stay informed on what youth's life looks like today so that they can better connect with them in a mental health crisis. Social media are more addictive than alcohol and cigarettes.
Image Description | Alamy image of two women taking a selfie on a beach and an image of a smartphone screen showing the Instagram logo.
Image Tags | female(s), Instagram, logo, selfie, smartphone

Das sind die beliebtesten Fotos auf Instagram 2016

(These are the most popular photographs on Instagram 2016)

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Newspaper | Hamburger Abendblatt
Date | 1.12.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | emojis, Instagram
Summary | The undefeated queen of Instagram is Selena Gomez. She has the most followers: over one million. Many of the most-liked pictures on Instagram are hers. Another extremely popular picture on Instagram is of Christiano Ronaldo kissing the trophy of the European football championship. The general mood on Instagram is positive with the most popular emojis being hearts and the most popular hashtags revolving around happiness.
Image Description | Various popular Instagram posts.
Image Tags | emojis, female(s), Instagram, male(s)

Vorsicht vor dieser Whatsapp-Falle

(Beware of this WhatsApp scam)

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Newspaper | Stern
Date | 19.12.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | emojis, threat, WhatsApp
Summary | A WhatsApp chain message is going around offering people free holiday emojis. A link directs them to a dodgy website where they type in their phone number and service provider. Instead of getting free emojis however one is signed up for an expensive subscription with hardly any possibility to quit. People should be careful with content they receive and spread through WhatsApp.
Image Description | A hand-held smartphone.
Image Tags | Facebook, female(s), hand(s), Instagram, smartphone, Viber, WhatsApp

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