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Ban mobile phones in schools to protect pupils' mental health
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 26.9.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | (mental) health, childhood, school, smartphone, threat
Summary | According to Shannon Turner, schools should ban smartphones to protect their pupils. Screens and social media can have a negative impact on children's health, which is why some schools have already put in place new rules (e.g. give children 6 hours of digital-free time).
Image Description | Photograph of two pupils in a classroom; one of them is showing her friend a smartphone and the other is giggling.
Image Tags | female(s), school, smartphone
Awkward anti-texting ad gives motorists very good reason to put their phones away while driving
Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 31.3.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | texting, threat
Summary | An anti-texting ad shows good reasons to put one's phone away while driving.
Image Description | Video of the ad, and two screenshots of the ad displaying people in a car.
Image Tags | female(s), male(s)
I can't be trusted with Google's texting app
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 19.5.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | Google, language threat, texting, word/writing, youth
Summary | Google's new Allo app is supposed to make you save time while you're texing, but it can sometimes lead to misunderstandings. The author of the article doesn't really like emojis and doesn't know how to use them well. She doesn't follow young people's digital habits. Their generation favors brevity, which can have a negative impact on language.
Image Description | Photograph of two young girls on their smartphones, two smartphones displaying chat conversations, and a man standing in front of a screen displaying "Allo" and "Duo".
Image Tags | female(s), male(s), smartphone, text
Chatbot tips for brands that want to get ahead of the game
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 2.11.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, marketing
Summary | Chatbots mimic human conversation, and a lot of companies are using them to interact with their customers. Four experts working for CNN, Modiface, Quartz, and Mastercard talk about their experiences with chatbots (advantages, challenges, and future).
Image Description | Photograph of a woman's hands holding a smartphone.
Image Tags | female(s), hand(s), smartphone
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)
Young people don't have tribes any more. We have smartphones instead
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 18.3.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | addiction, smartphone, threat
Summary | Every generation had its rebellion (e.g. skinheads, punk, new romantics). What about the millennials? How do they deal with boredom? We have smartphones, and we can do anything with them. The difference between us and the older generations is that we are not "tribal" anymore. We are more "individual".
Image Description | Photograph in black and white of one punk and two other people.
Image Tags | female(s), male(s)
Posting photos online is not living. You are producing your own obituary
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 29.5.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | social media
Summary | When people go on vacation, they take a lot of pictures and mostly see their screens. They don't need to look at landscapes -they have copies of sunsets and palm trees on their smartphones. Storing everything in digital form has become so common today. It seems that our experiences need to be recorded digitally in order to be real. Since we live in a materialistic world, our behavior makes sense. Our social media posts are just an obituary we write for future generations in order to show them that we lived.
Image Description | Photograph of a woman taking a selfie in front of the Eiffel Tower.
Image Tags | female(s), selfie
Could Steiner schools have a point on children, tablets and tech?
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 14.6.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | digitized education, school, technology-free
Summary | The Iona school in Nottingham is a more "traditional" school; pupils don’t work on tablets or computers, and in the classroom you can see the old-fashioned blackboard. The school curriculum is based on the 19th century philosopher Rudolf Steiner. Some critics say that the fact that those children don't use screens at school will be disadvantage for them later. When they leave school, they'll be part of a digital world which includes technology. They need to be prepared for that.
Image Description | Photograph of a woman and children kneading dough, man drawing on a blackboard, two boys on a tree, and two children making arts and crafts.
Image Tags | female(s), male(s)
'It was so simple and easy': the nursing home improving care with tech
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 26.7.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, smartphone
Summary | A nursing home in London developed an app to faciliate administrative work. Many social organisations still use more traditional ways of recording data; for instance, they take notes by hand about their residents. But this can be time consuming. The London-based nursing home called Nightingale worked with a team to create a smartphone app that would facilitate workers and nurses' work. Thanks to the app, care workers can now enter patient information digitally. The app uses algorithms and language recognition.
Image Description | Photograph of a nurse using a tablet.
Image Tags | female(s), tablet
How a Canadian app is helping refugees find food, clean water and medical care
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 16.11.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | smartphone, threat
Summary | A new app called Services Advisor was created by Canadian nonprofit PeaceGeeks. The goal of the app is to give refugees basic information about food, shelter, or medical care. The app is available in English and Arabic. A lot of refugees are tech-saavy people and already owned a smartphone before they had to leave their country.
Image Description | Photograph of a group of refugees, and screenshot of the app displaying different categories
Image Tags | female(s), male(s)
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