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Emma Watson, Emilia Clarke and Harry Styles Instagram accounts HACKED in major social media security breach
Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 1.9.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | Instagram, privacy, social media, threat
Summary | A few celebrities' Instagram accounts have been hacked because of a bug in the system. The phone numbers and email addresses of celebrities were being sold on the dark web.
Image Description | Portraits of Emma Watson, Emilia Clarke and Harry Styles, charts, and hand on a keyboard.
Image Tags | chart, computer/laptop, female(s), hand(s), male(s)
Internetstars mit Jöö-Faktor
(Internet stars with aaaaw factor)
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)
Is this the first Instagram masterpiece?
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 18.1.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | Instagram
Summary | Amalia Ulman started posting pictures on Instagram. She posed in lingerie, bragged about her lifestyle in LA, claimed she attended pole-dancing classes and had breast-enlargement surgery. People started hating her. However, all those pictures were a joke. Ulman had been playing a role, and all of her 89,244 followers had been fooled. She said that everything was planned with a beginning, a climax and an end. She was acting. Now, her pictures will be shown in two new exhibitions.
Image Description | Four Instagram pictures of Amalia Ulman
Image Tags | female(s), smartphone
Viva la Instagram! Photo sharing app will automatically translate foreign-language posts automatically
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
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
Wo geht's hier zur #bikinibridge?
(Which way is the #bikinibridge?)
Newspaper | Die Zeit
Date | 18.7.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | (mental) health, gender, hashtags, Instagram, threat
Summary | Instagram is the new place where beauty ideals are reproduced and policed. Such hashtags as the #thighgap and the #bikinibridge let users pull up a sea of skinny women's bodies which can be compared with each other. Although these trends are said to be about fitness and health, but the comments and likes show that the trends are more about a beauty ideal. This is misleading and dangerous.
Image Description | Shutterstock Image of a woman in a gym taking a selfie.
Image Tags | female(s), selfie, smartphone
The royal twitterati: how the monarchy learned to love social media
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 16.2.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | Facebook, Instagram, marketing, social media, Twitter, YouTube
Summary | The British royals have a striking social media presence. Experts say it is very well curated with high quality images and videos and very well chosen language. They are currently looking for a new social media employee but the offered salary in no way reflects the huge responsibility of the job.
Image Description | Getty image of the Queen and of Prince Harry getting tested for HIV as a promotion of getting tested.
Image Tags | female(s), male(s)
Instagram, la peor red para la salud mental de los adolescentes
(Instagram, the worst social network for adolescents' mental health)
Newspaper | El País
Date | 21.5.2017
Language | Spanish
Country | Spain
Topic Tags | (mental) health, Instagram, research/study, social media, youth
Summary | According to a British study, Instagram can have a negative impact on its users. Young people who spend more than two hours a day on social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook or Instagram are more likely to suffer from mental health problems, especially anxiety and depression. One of the respondents said that Instagram easily makes girls and women feel as though their bodies are not good enough, so they add filters and edit their images to look perfect.
Image Description | Photographs of someone taking a picture of two girls
Image Tags | female(s), hand(s), smartphone
Instagram ranked worst social network for young people's mental health
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
Katie Lee on Culture and Cuisine at the Beach
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 3.6.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | Instagram, social media
Summary | A food journalist describes how she finds the best spots to blog about. She goes to Instagram and checks out the restaurants beforehand. The pictures of the food also give her a feel for what might be the best dish at a restaurant. It is always also important to ask locals, for instance taxi drivers.
Image Description | Photograph of the interviewee at the beach.
Image Tags | female(s)
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