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Keine Chance für WhatsApp-Konkurrenz
(No chance for WhatsApp competition)
Newspaper | Der Bund
Date | 16.2.2015
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | Facebook, privacy, WhatsApp
Summary | When Facebook bought WhatsApp for $22 mio in 2014, many users feared that their data privacy would be exploited. App store sales for secure messaging apps increased, particularly the Swiss app Threema. Now, Facebook and WhatsApp still have the highest user numbers which shows that people do not seem to care very much about their data privacy in the long run. While WhatsApp did introduce end-to-end encryption, Facebook also broke their promise of never connecting WhatsApp and Facebook user data.
Image Description | Photograph of a smartphone screen with different icons.
Image Tags | logo, smartphone
Facebook und WhatsApp in der EU erst mit 16 Jahren
(Facebook and WhatsApp only after 16 years of age in the EU)
Newspaper | Der Bund
Date | 16.12.2015
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | law, Facebook, privacy, social media, youth
Summary | The EU has renewed the laws tied to data privacy originally made in 1995. The new laws now enable users of online platforms such as Facebook to sue these companies in their home country rather than having to travel. Also, some countries lift the legal age required to join social media from 13 to 16 years old. Young people under the age of 16 are legally not allowed to enter into a contract around data privacy with Facebook.
Image Description | Photograph of a hand holding a smartphone.
Image Tags | hand(s), logo, smartphone
Per SMS-Alarm ans Obligatorische
(Text message alarm to remind of compulsory (shooting practice))
Newspaper | Tagblatt (Thurgau)
Date | 21.5.2015
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | texting
Summary | Frauenfeld’s shooting club president, Damian Schlatter, has launched a text message alarm service to remind military recruits of their obligatory shooting practice. Because fines for missed shooting practices are very high, this text message alarm is very popular. This is also a good way to better the shooting club’s image as being for old people only and transporting it into the 21st century.
Image Description | Photograph in black and white of Damian Schlatter.
Image Tags | male(s)
Aufgefallen
(Caught the eye)
Newspaper | St. Galler Tagblatt
Date | 25.2.2015
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis
Summary | Emojis now offer smileys and hand gestures in various skin colors. This innovation is coming from Apple. There is also a rumor going around online that emojis depicting same-sex couples with children will be included.
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Digitales Leben: Der Boom der Emojis
(Digital life: The boom of emojis)
Newspaper | Handelszeitung
Date | 22.5.2015
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | emojis, marketing, smartphone
Summary | Emojis can no longer be avoided. People from all ranks of life are using them. Companies even use them in marketing and have to regulate their use; the eggplant emoji is inappropriate. Every smartphone has a few hundred emojis available and an app exists that lets users communicate with emojis only – it is called Emojli.
Image Description | Digital image representing different emojis.
Image Tags | emojis
Die optimierte Frau
(The optimized woman)
Newspaper | die Weltwoche
Date | 8.1.2015
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | Instagram, selfie, social media, youth
Summary | New social media platforms such as Instagram perpetuate unrealistic beauty standards because the seeming effortlessness of the snaps is in reality highly staged. Cosmetic surgeons assume that the obsession with physical perfection is responsible for the fact that people nowadays are much less apprehensive to undergo cosmetic surgery. The article makes a reference to danah boyd’s book It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens.
Image Description | Selfie of Karlie Kloss and Taylor Swift
Image Tags | selfie
22-Jähriger erhält Freiheitsstrafe wegen ‘Sexting’
(22-year old sentenced to imprisonment because of ‘sexting’)
Newspaper | Appenzeller Zeitung
Date | 17.1.2015
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | sexting, youth
Summary | A 22-year old young man created fake online profiles making himself appear to be a young attractive woman. He then lured teenage boys into sending him nude photos. After receiving nude photos, he would threaten his victims to publish the photos should they not have sex with him. He was found out after one of his victims went to the police and will be imprisoned for 5.5 years.
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Dem digitalen Lachen auf der Spur
(On the tracks of the digital laugh)
Newspaper | Tages-Anzeiger
Date | 19.8.2015
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | Facebook, gender, youth
Summary | The article reports about another article in the The New Yorker by Sarah Larson who did a quantitative study about how Americans convey laughter in their digital communication. They collected data from Facebook comment sections and analyzed them. Different ways to communicate laughter online co-occur with different demographics: younger people and women use more emojis to indicate laughter and men and older people do this more verbally by writing “haha” or similar verbal tokens
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Snapchat führt Wiederholung ein
(Snapchat introduces a repeat function)
Newspaper | Appenzeller Zeitung
Date | 17.9.2015
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | privacy, Snapchat
Summary | Snapchat, which is notoriously known for the self-destruction of its content, has introduced a repeat function. The new function is said to be available once a day per user and is being tested in the US only for now. If users want to see more repeats, they can pay $0.99 and get to watch unlimited replays. Considering that Snapchat has had safety breaches in the past, this move is quite odd because it turns the main component of Snapchat around.
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Facebook will das Internet sein
(Facebook wants to be the internet)
Newspaper | Tages-Anzeiger
Date | 3.12.2015
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | Facebook, Snapchat, threat
Summary | In the last decade, Facebook has grown an unprecedented group of users. The text compares Facebook to Yahoo who wanted to buy Facebook for only $1 bio back in 2006. According to the author, Facebook, like Yahoo was, is huge right now but increasingly boring. Like Yahoo, Facebook is diversifying its assets including the purchase of WhatsApp and Instagram. Now Snapchat’s increasing popularity is threatening to replace Facebook.
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