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Girls and social media: 'You are expected to live up to an impossible standard'
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 23.8.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | gender, social media, threat, youth
Summary | According to a new poll, 1 out of 3 girls feels pressured to be "perfect" on social networks. Five teenage girls share their opinion on the subject. For instance, they constantly compare themselves to other people online and then feel like they have to project a perfect image of themselves online. Some people delete their pictures online because they don't feel confident anymore and think they are not following the "rules". Moreover, young girls online constantly look for other people's validation and "likes". Instagram seems to be the worst social network for those girls.
Image Description | Photograph of hands holding smartphones.
Image Tags | hand(s), smartphone
Facebook Faces a New World as Officials Rein In a Wild Web
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
China Blocks WhatsApp, Broadening Online Censorship
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 25.9.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | censorship, threat, WhatsApp
Summary | The messaging app WhatsApp has been blocked in China. WhatsApp -which is owned by Facebook- was the last of Facebook products available in China. Indeed, both Facebook and Instagram are unavailable in China. To block the messaging app WhatsApp, the Chinese government may have created a special system that can intercept WhatsApp messages. Because of censorship in China, users have to turn to other messaging apps that can be easily controlled by the Chinese government (e.g. WeChat). When WhatsApp was blocked, many Chinese users complained.
Image Description | Photograph of a man staring at his phone.
Image Tags | male(s), smartphone
Are smartphones really making our children sad?
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
Weißt du, was diese Emojis wirklich bedeuten?
(Do you know what these emojis really mean?)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 30.9.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | emojis, misunderstanding, punctuation, texting
Summary | We cannot imagine texting nowadays without emojis. They have become as important to us as punctuation. They serve to add a specific tone to our messages or to present them in a specific light. They are however also very easy to misunderstand. Do we really know what the emojis stand for? Here is an emoji quiz to text your emoji literacy!
Image Description | Artsy photograph of women texting and using emojis, a GIF, and emojis.
Image Tags | emojis, female(s), gifs, smartphone
What is an Animoji? Apple leak reveals iPhone 8 feature that makes emojis based on your facial expressions
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
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?
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
Apple's new iPhone X will let you control the POO EMOJI with your face
Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 12.9.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis
Summary | Apple's iPhone X will introduce a new feature: it will let users control the poo emoji with their own face. This new technology can also be used for other things; this is why Apple created Animoji. Animoji tracks your expressions and can create 3D animated emojis that users can use in iMessages.
Image Description | Video of the iPhone X, and photograph of a man holding a phone and smartphone screen displaying the animated poo emoji.
Image Tags | emojis, male(s), smartphone
How emojis took over your workplace - and the man who can help you make sense of it all
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
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