Number of Posts: 7
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«Les lettres d'amour sont toujours révolutionnaires»
("Love letters are still revolutionary")
Newspaper | La Tribune de Genève
Date | 3.12.2016
Language | French
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | gender, texting, threat, word/writing
Summary | Philippe Brenot has been studying people's ways of sharing love for more than thirty years. He noticed some gender differences; for instance, women like to save love letters close to themselves whereas men save theirs in binders. Moreover, women don't write about their lover's body, whereas descriptions of female bodies are omnipresent in men's letters. However, in text messages, women are more likely to be straightforward. Brenot claims that love letters are not disappearing with new technologies. People still send each other love messages and save them.
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Quand le numérique permet de rapprocher les générations
(When "digital" brings generations closer together)
Newspaper | Le Monde
Date | 10.2.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | gender, social media
Summary | The Professional Women's Network in Paris launched its first 'reverse mentoring digital' where young women between 25 and 35 have the opportunity of teaching 50-year old women the basics of IT and digital language, with a focus on the use of Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.
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On oublie toujours une minorité
(We always forget a minority)
Newspaper | Le Matin
Date | 14.5.2016
Language | French
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | emojis, gender
Summary | Today's emojis don't really represent women in a fair way (dancer, princess, or grandmother). Therefore, Google is going to include peasant women, teachers or doctors, for example. But since the idea is to better represent minorities, perhaps the Bogdanov brothers and Conchita Wurst will complain about the lack of "mutant" emojis.
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Sur Facebook, la façon de s'exprimer des hommes et des femmes diffère
(On Facebook, men and women express themselves differently)
Newspaper | Le Monde
Date | 2.6.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | Facebook, gender, research/study
Summary | A group of researchers analyzed 68000 Facebook posts to identify language/communication differences between men and women. Men tend to be "colder", to swear more, and to talk more about sports, politics and video games. Women tend to talk more about social relationships and to describe positive emotions.
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L'intelligence artificielle reproduit aussi le sexisme et le racisme des humains
(Artificial intelligence also reproduces human beings' sexism and racism)
Newspaper | Le Monde
Date | 15.4.2017
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, gender, research/study, threat
Summary | Gender stereotypes are reproduced in some artificial intelligence programs. Researchers at the University of Stanford show how machine learning can replicate people's biases. They based their research on a technology called GloVe, which is trained to look for common associations. The technology points to some problematic associations that illustrate sexism and racism. The fact that AI follows people's prejudices can have some serious consequences, so people are trying to find solutions against AI's biases.
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« Lol » est mort, vive le « haha » !
("Lol" is dead, long lives "haha"!)
Newspaper | Le Monde
Date | 12.8.2015
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | emojis, Facebook, gender, research/study
Summary | According to Facebook analysts, "lol" is dying out. In their study, they found out that only 1,9% of internet users use "lol" and 51,4% of them use "haha". Laughing emojis are used by 33,7% of internet users. "Lol" seems to be used by 30-year old men whereas emojis are mostly used by females under 20.
Image Description | Photograph of a dictionary page with a big LOL in the middle of the page.
Image Tags | dictionary
Les émojis ont-ils un sexe?
(Do have emojis have a gender?)
Newspaper | Le Figaro
Date | 6.2.2017
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | emojis, gender, misunderstanding
Summary | Emojis are becoming a universal language. Will they allow men and women to understand each other? A recent study tried to figure out which emojis are mostly used by men and which are mostly used by women. Results show that men and women use different emojis and they use them differently. For instance, women tend to use more emojis with tears than men.
Image Description | Photograph of a coffee mug with a smiley face (design made in the frothy milk).
Image Tags | emojis
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