Digital Discourse Database

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«Les lettres d'amour sont toujours révolutionnaires»

("Love letters are still revolutionary")

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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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