Number of Posts: 18
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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)
Zuckerbergs Eine-Welt-Laden
(Zuckerberg's one-world-shop)
Newspaper | Die Zeit
Date | 21.2.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | Facebook, politics, WhatsApp
Summary | Zuckerberg has written an open letter stating that he wants to create a world community on Facebook with their 2 bio users. Although he does not state it explicitly, it reads as an anti-nationalism manifesto. Facebook plays an important role in politics and so does WhatsApp. Some villages in Kenya have WhatsApp groups including all citizens as well as the politicians.
Image Description | Finger pointing at portraits of women.
Image Tags | female(s), hand(s)
So kämpfen Fraktionslose um Aufmerksamkeit
(This is how independent politicians vie for attention)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 31.10.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | Facebook, politics
Summary | Politicians who are not affiliated with any established party have a hard time being heard by potential voters. They have now discovered Facebook. Publishing their candidacy and their political view on policies on Facebook gets them a lot of attention. Some even pay money for Facebook to advertise their accounts.
Image Description | Image of the parliament chamber of Hamburg and portraits of the mentioned politicians.
Image Tags | female(s), male(s)
Afro-Frisur einer Schülerin wird zum Politikum
(Afro hair of a student becomes a political issue)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 2.9.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | diversity, Facebook, gender, hashtags, politics, school, Twitter
Summary | A black girl at a high school in Pretoria in South Africa was chastised for wearing her hair naturally in an afro. This resulted in a lot of backlash against the school on social media under the hasthag #StopRacismAtPretoriaGirlsHigh. As many as 28'000 people signed an online petition to end racism at schools and major polititians condemned the chastising of wearing natural black hair.
Image Description | A black woman doing another black woman's hair in a salon.
Image Tags | female(s)
Neuronales Netzwerk beschreibt Fotos für Blinde
(Neuron network describes pictures for blind people)
Newspaper | Die Zeit
Date | 5.4.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, diversity, Facebook
Summary | Facebook is testing a new function that tells blind users what is depicted by an image on Facebook. The system does not need human input to recognize the content of images - it has been feed with millions of images to "learn" to recognize certain things like the outdoors and sports. This is a way to include people with visual disabilities better on social media because a lot of the activity there is visual.
Image Description | Facebook feed with photographs explained.
Image Tags | Facebook, female(s), male(s)
Arabische Frauen wehren sich gegen sexuelle Gewalt
(Arab women defend themselves against sexual violence)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 17.1.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | diversity, Facebook, gender, law, politics
Summary | Two women from Palestine have created a Facebook group called "Tuskuteesh" ("break the silence") where they want to give Arab women a space to tell their storiess of sexual violence. Much sexual violence goes unpunished in the Arab world because the perpetrators are often family members.
Image Description | Image of the Tuskuteesh Facebook logo and the cover of a book written by one of the group creators.
Image Tags | female(s)
Erfolgreiches Netzwerken geht auch ohne Facebook
(Successful networking is possible even without Facebook)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 6.3.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | Facebook, politeness
Summary | Facebook enabled event organizers to reach thousands of people. Because of these masses of invited people, accepting an invitation stopped being binding. Now the trend is towards smaller, more exclusive events for networking. Accepting an invitation to a smaller event is more binding and networking works better if the company is overviewable.
Image Description | A Getty image of a cocktail party and a portrait of two network specialists.
Image Tags | female(s), male(s)
Facebook-App soll das Gedankenlesen lernen
(Facebook app is supposed to learn mindreading)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 20.3.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | brain, Facebook, privacy, translation
Summary | Facebook is working on new technology to enable mind reading. This would enable users to type just by thinking and moreover possibly type in a foreign language they don't even speak. All this would be possible if we had sensors that could read brain waves and interpret them correctly. The developers at Facebook emphasize that only those thoughts would be read which are willingly shared by the user.
Image Description | Thinkstock image of two cyborgs.
Image Tags | female(s), male(s)
Auf die Bombe folgten die Explosionen
(The bomb was followed by explosions)
Newspaper | Tages-Anzeiger
Date | 10.12.2016
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | Facebook, law, politics, privacy
Summary | Recently the news story about a company called Cambridge Analytica made waves: they claimed to have extracted an accurate psychological profile of all adult US citizens based on their Facebook likes. The company uses those profiles to target very specific audiences with political advertising. Such rigorous profiling based on data that was not willingly given for the purposes of such analysis would be illegal in Europe.
Image Description | Bloomberg image of a woman with glasses (only eyes portion of face visible), the glasses reflecting a screen showing the Facebook logo.
Image Tags | Facebook, female(s), logo
Woman's hilarious rant after Original Source shower gel 'leaves her vagina ablaze' - and she's not alone
Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 11.5.2016
Language | German
Country | UK
Topic Tags | Facebook
Summary | A woman posted about a showering accident she had with a specific tingling mint-scented shower gel so that other people would not make the same mistake. She very graphically described how painful the shower gel is when it gets in contact with the genitals. People found her post hilarious and relatable so it was shared and commented on by many.
Image Description | Selfie of the woman with the shower gel, photos of the cosmetic product in question, Image bank image of a woman showering, Getty image of a man showering, and an image of a shower head running water.
Image Tags | female(s), male(s)
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