Digital Discourse Database

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One in four girls have depression by the time they hit 14, study reveals

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Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 20.9.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | (mental) health, gender, research/study, social media, threat
Summary | According to a new study, about 24% of teenage girls (and about 9% of boys) are depressed, which has led people to ask whether social media and issues related to body image have an impact on teenagers' health. It seems that today's girls are facing more mental health problems that previous generations.
Image Description | Photograph of a girl sitting on a deck.
Image Tags | female(s)

For this company, online surveillance leads to profit in Washington’s suburbs

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Newspaper | Washington Post
Date | 10.9.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | emojis, privacy, social media, threat
Summary | Babel Street is a startup that uses online surveillance; they try to get private information from online platforms in order to catch cybercriminals. For instance, police departments might use the service provided by the company in their investigations and scan posts online. Experts try to track dangerous criminals while analyzing posts in more than 200 languages, including the emoji language. Emoji has actually been a challenge for analysts. Another challenge the company faces is to make sure sure it doesn't violate people's privacy.
Image Description | Photograph of a man standing in a news room in front of several TVs, and two other people.
Image Tags | female(s), male(s)

Facebook Faces a New World as Officials Rein In a Wild Web

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Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 17.9.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | censorship, Facebook, marketing, privacy, social media, threat
Summary | Facebook’s head of global policy management recently agreed to remove anything that violates the Vietnamese law from the social network. Governments around the world (even in the US) are increasingly trying to keep control of what's happening online. As a result, governments and big tech companies such as Google, Apple, Facebook or Amazon don't always agree with each other. On the one hand, big tech companies want to have more control and power, and on the other hand, nations want to gain more control over people's online behvior. Facebook's desire to expand everywhere (e.g. in China) is one of the reasons for today's struggle between tech companies and nations. Facebook also faced some issues in Europe and Africa.
Image Description | Photograph of people using computers in a computer room, map of Facebook's users, two women laughing in front of a board displaying social media icons, Mark Zuckerberg and other people running in China, Mark Zuckerberg, his wife and daughters, glass building, people in front of a thumb-up sign, woman, crowd (some of them are using their phones), and people on their computers.
Image Tags | computer/laptop, Facebook, female(s), male(s), smartphone, social media

Are smartphones really making our children sad?

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Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 13.8.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | (mental) health, addiction, childhood, smartphone, threat, youth
Summary | Children's relationship with screens has become a contested topic; not everyone agrees with what should or shouldn't be done. Last week, the Atlantic published an excerpt of Jean Twenge's book (the Atlantic article was titled "Have smartphones destroyed a generation?"), which initiated very diverse reactions. Jean Twenge, who is an American pychologist, said that social media have a negative effect on young people. Twenger then answered some of her critics in this Guardian article.
Image Description | Photograph of a group of teenagers all staring at their phone or tablet.
Image Tags | female(s), male(s), smartphone, tablet

What is an Animoji? Apple leak reveals iPhone 8 feature that makes emojis based on your facial expressions

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Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 12.9.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis
Summary | Apple leak revealed a new feature of the new iPhones 8 and X: a facial recognition software that can makes animated emojis.
Image Description | Images of different emojis, 3D face, portraits of celebrities, photographs of the iPhone X box, videos of the iPhone X, and photographs of the new iPhone.
Image Tags | emojis, female(s), hand(s), male(s), smartphone

Dad confiscates daughter's iPhone - then makes punishment even worse with savage joke

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Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 9.7.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | smartphone, texting, youth
Summary | One dad punished his daughter and confiscating her iPhone. He also made a joke and slid a piece of paper under her door; he actually drew a picture of a smartphone screen displaying text messages between his daugher and himself.
Image Description | Photograph of a girl using her phone, screenshots of several tweets (one of them shows the piece of paper), and photograph of a dad and his daughter.
Image Tags | female(s), male(s), smartphone, Twitter

Can you really lodge official complaints using emojis?

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Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 17.9.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis
Summary | People don't always agree on what is appropriate when it comes to emoji usage. If people want to complaint about something, they should be able to express themselves the way the want. They should be able to send a letter, tweet, or even send an emoji, if they want to.
Image Description | Photograph of a hand holding a smartphone, fingers crossed emoji, woman using her phone and opening her mouth, three emojis.
Image Tags | emojis, female(s), hand(s), smartphone

How emojis took over your workplace - and the man who can help you make sense of it all

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Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 14.8.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis
Summary | Emojis are everywhere, even in one of the latest movies. Also, 92% of internet users in the world claim they use emojis in their digital communication. Emojis are not only used by teenage girls, workers also use them in their work emails. Keith Broni talks about the use of emojis in work emails and some rules people should follow.
Image Description | Photograph of a hand holding a smartphone displaying a chat conversation and emojis, portrait of Keith Broni, and woman in front of a big screen.
Image Tags | emojis, female(s), hand(s), male(s), smartphone, text

Why you should think twice before using emojis in your work emails

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Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 14.8.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | email, emojis, research/study
Summary | People shouldn't use emojis in their work emails. A new study analyzed the effects of emojis in work emails, and employees actually claimed that people who use emojis in their work emails seem less competent.
Image Description | Images of different emojis, photograph of a man staring at his phone, and woman holding her head and looking worried.
Image Tags | emojis, female(s), male(s)

Hundreds of people around the globe dress as emojis for International Emoji Day record attempt

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Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 17.7.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis
Summary | People around the world dressed up as emojis to celebrate World Emoji Day. They wanted to set a new Guinness World Record.
Image Description | Video showing people dressed up as emojis, and five photographs of people dressed up as emojis.
Image Tags | emojis, female(s), male(s)

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