Digital Discourse Database

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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

The dangerous teenage texting slang that all parents should be aware of

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Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 12.6.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | texting, threat, youth
Summary | Young people are always creating new "texting language". Parents should try to keep track of this language evolution, because the online world can be dangerous. A chief parent officer of software program Bark said that she's still surprised that some parents don't know what Netflix and chill’ means -it means sex. Different surveillance softwares help parents to keep an eye their children's texting habits. For instance, Bark is a surveillance software that can recognize when kids are joking and when they are serious.
Image Description | Three photographs of young girls on their smartphones.
Image Tags | female(s), smartphone

Facebook Messenger's new bots are a powerful way to target adverts

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Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 13.4.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook, marketing, texting
Summary | Bots are becoming more and more popular and are taking over apps. Facebook Messenger will soon have its bots. Three types of bots were unveiled at a conference in San Francisco. The goal is to create bots that will learn what you like and don't like. But then, Facebook can let brands get in touch with you through Messenger; it's a marketing/advertising strategy.
Image Description | Photographs of different smartphone screens displaying chat conversations.
Image Tags | smartphone, text

I can't be trusted with Google's texting app

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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

'WhatsYapp' dog collar claims to translate your pooch's barks into human language

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Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 28.1.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | texting, WhatsApp
Summary | WhatsYapp is a smart dog collar that is supposed to help owners understand what their dogs want. Every time your dogs barks, the device translates the noise into words and sends you a message (like WhatsApp).
Image Description | Design of the smart collar prototype, smartphone screen displaying the picture of a dog and a conversation, two videos of pets
Image Tags | smartphone, text

The end of apps is here. Long live chat bots

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Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 31.3.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, texting, threat
Summary | Apps will soon disappear as bots keep rising. Bots are helpful assistant that can chat with you within any app. Thanks to bots, you can book a table at a restaurant, or make an appointment. You just have to write a message (e.g. on Facebook or Skype), and "someone" will text you back. However, bots are not perfect. Microsoft's bot Tay expressed racist and hateful comments.
Image Description | Digital image representing a collage of a lot of apps, screenshot of a computer screen, chart, hand holding a smartphone displaying a conversation, David Marcus's Facebook post, smartphone screen showing how you can add a bot on Skype, and Tay Tweets account
Image Tags | chart, Facebook, hand(s), Skype, smartphone, text, Twitter

Girls gang up on boys in new cyberbullying craze called 'roasting', expert warns

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Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 25.7.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | (mental) health, cyberbullying, gender, social media, texting, threat, youth
Summary | "Roasting" is a new cyberbullying craze where girls pick on boys on WhatsApp, Instagram, or Facebook until they crack. Teenage girls and boys have already killed themselves because of cyberbullying.
Image Description | Photograph of three young girls using and staring at their smartphone
Image Tags | female(s), smartphone

Iranian hackers attack Telegram to find 15 million accounts

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Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 3.8.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | privacy, texting
Summary | Iranian hackers got access to Telegram accounts and got the details of 15 million Iranian users.
Image Description | Telegram logo, photograph of military men running, photograph of two Muslim women taking a selfie, screenshot of a series of tweets
Image Tags | female(s), logo, male(s), selfie, smartphone, Twitter

The rise and rise of international diplomacy by WhatsApp

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Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 4.11.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | politics, privacy, texting, WhatsApp
Summary | WhatsApp diplomacy is a thing: when leaders gather to talk in the same room, they can exchange emojis and other documents to other people without the whole room knowing. WhatsApp is more secure than other government information systems and has been used at the UN and EU headquarters.
Image Description | Photograph of a group of diplomats looking at their phone, screenshot of a WhatsApp chat, photograph of a man holding a phone and a woman standing next to him (both are looking at the phone)
Image Tags | female(s), male(s), smartphone, text, WhatsApp

Rise of the defrienders: Nine in ten young people have been 'ghosted' by their friend or partner

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Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 6.5.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | smartphone, social media, texting, youth
Summary | “Ghosting” or defriending someone by text or social media is a new phenomenon. It seems that young people prefer using their smartphones and laptops to end relationships instead of doing it face-to-face. The term "ghosting" came from Katy Perry's song "Ghost" where she talks about ex-husband Russell Brand who had not spoken to her after demanding a divorce via text. Thanks to social media and the fact that you can hide behind your phone it is now easier to defriend people by ghosting.
Image Description | Photographs of two hands holding a smartphone, Russell Brand and Katy Perry, a man using his phone and looking at it, a hand holding a smartphone displaying the Facebook icon.
Image Tags | Facebook, female(s), hand(s), male(s), smartphone

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