Number of Posts: 25
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Sie erklären Rezepte von Foodie zu Foodie
(They explain recipes from foodie to foodie)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 29.9.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | Facebook, marketing, YouTube
Summary | The Hamburg-based company Foodboom creates high-quality cooking videos and distributes them online on Facebook and YouTube reaching millions of viewers. They try to hit the balance between high-quality content, food-wise as well as visually, and simplicity in the sense of easy to recreate in anyone's home kitchen. They finance themselves with product placement which they always indicate very clearly.
Image Description | A picture of a hamburger, a dinner party, and a portrait of the two owners of Foodboom.
Image Tags | female(s), male(s)
Mum leaves million Facebook fans 'crying laughing' with her brutal reviews - and it's all thanks to a 50p bet
Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 13.8.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | Facebook, YouTube
Summary | Antonella is a 43-year-old GPs' receptionist, and she's now famous on Facebook and YouTube thanks to her hilarious and uncensored posts. It all started when she decided with a friend to do a funny review online and see who would get the most likes. Fans said they were crying laughing when they saw her review and told her she should do more reviews.
Image Description | Two videos of Antonella and her reviews, and six screenshots of videos of Antonella trying on a bra and testing a cream.
Image Tags | female(s)
Sie strengt sich nicht mal an
(She's not even trying)
Newspaper | Die Zeit
Date | 16.8.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | emojis, politics, YouTube
Summary | Angela Merkel was interviewed by German YouTubers and she succeeded in not adapting the the speediness of the internet and keeping her calm, slow speaking voice. To the question what her favorite emoji is, she said that she likes the smiling one. She does not very much identify with the angry emoji.
Image Description | Photograph of Angela Merkel and a YouTuber.
Image Tags | female(s)
Wenn Merkel gut drauf ist, verschickt sie diese Emojis
(If Merkel is in a good mood, she might send out emojis)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 16.8.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | emojis, politics, YouTube
Summary | A few popular German YouTubers were given the opportunity to interview to most poweful woman on earth, Angela Merkel. The talked about some political issues but the most anticipated question was, which Angela Merkel's favorite emoji is. She responded with "the smiley" and if she is having a really good day, she might throw in a little heart emojis as well.
Image Description | N/A
Why are YouTube stars so popular?
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 3.2.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | YouTube
Summary | YouTube stars such as Zoella are popular and very influential. According to a study, young people find YouTubers more influencial than 'traditional' celebrities. One of the reasons why YouTubers are more influential is because they can connect with their fans more easily, which creates more authentic relationships.
Image Description | Portrait of Zoella (female YouTuber), video "what is YouTube", ranking of eight celebrities, video "coming out", and digital image of Stampy.
Image Tags | female(s), male(s)
A Hunt for Ways to Combat Online Radicalization
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 23.8.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | Google, research/study, social media, threat, YouTube
Summary | Social media companies have only recently begun waking up to the fact that their unpoliced platforms are safe spaces for all kinds of extremism. Studies show that extremists nowadays get radicalized online, whether they be islamists or white supremacists. While these two movements may differ in ideologies, they resemble each otehr very strongly in their internet strategies of recruitment and organization of offline events. A research group at Google has now come up with a diversion strategy to combat the radicalization of individuals online. They target people who watch extremist recruitment videos on YouTube with video suggestions that present differing arguments and the downsides of that ideology. So far, there can be no knowing whether this strategy is helping but the redirection videos are being watched.
Image Description | GIF with mouse cursor arrows: black arrows surrounding a white arrow.
Image Tags | gifs
YouTube battles ISIS with a redirect strategy
Newspaper | Washington Post
Date | 25.7.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | marketing, politics, threat, YouTube
Summary | YouTube is redirecting people who search for extremist materials to videos that show the pain terrorism causes in order to act against new people getting radicalized. While this may be a useful strategy, it is problematic that this move was incited by companies. YouTube had been struggling with advertisers pulling their ads from controversial videos.
Image Description | N/A
YouTube Sets Policies To Restrict Extremism
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 18.6.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Google, marketing, threat, YouTube
Summary | Google has been using artificial intelligence to weed out offensive videos from YouTube and take them down. It is quite good at detecting nudity, graphic violence, and copyright violations. However, other less straightforward offensive material remains on the platform such as cultish sermons by extremist muslims. These are however not being monetized by displaying advertising next to them.
Image Description | An image of the London Tower and a portrait of a man.
Image Tags | female(s), male(s)
Daily Report: The Limits of A.I.
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 16.6.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook, Google, YouTube
Summary | Facebook wants to use artificial intelligence to remove offensive content from their platform. It is however not easy to teach a computer the nuances of offence. Google has tried to do the same thing on YouTube and they have definitely required human employees to double-check the content the artificial intelligence program has flagged.
Image Description | N/A
A hunt for militants at a key location: the Internet
Newspaper | Los Angeles Times
Date | 6.5.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | Facebook, law, texting, threat, Twitter, WhatsApp, YouTube
Summary | The EU's police organization as well as the US government are targeting IS material online in their battle against terrorism. Attempts to intercept communication via encrypted instant messaging apps like WhatsApp and Telegram have failed. The IS also uploads video and other content to YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook. These social media platforms report to have deleted hundreds of thousands of entries linken to the IS.
Image Description | Portrait of a high profile IS member.
Image Tags | male(s)
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