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In Race Against Fake News, Google and Facebook Stroll to the Starting Line
Newspaper | New York Magazine
Date | 25.1.2017
Language | German
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | Facebook, fake news, Google, politics, threat
Summary | Google and Facebook are beginning to respond to the wide criticism that they do nothing to combat fake news on their platforms. Critics blame the uncontested spread of fake news for the voting of Donald Trump. Facebook and Google are now trying to block new providers on their platforms that spread misleading content but critics doubt that these measures are very effective.
Image Description | Getty image of a Google cafeteria.
Image Tags | Google, male(s), smartphone
Finding Inspiration for Art in the Betrayal of Privacy
Newspaper | New York Magazine
Date | 27.12.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | privacy, threat
Summary | A collective of Berlin-based artists have opened an art exhibition in Manhattan reflecting present society's relationship with new technology and data privacy. Contemporary art concerned with technology is much more pessimistic than it used to be a decade or two ago. The initial optimism is gone and artists have begun to criticize the fact that what we base our sense of self on nowadays - social media - is owned by a handful of corporations and are geared towards mining our data and selling us products.
Image Description | Photo illustration by Adam Ferriss. Source photograph by Jean-Erick Pasquier/Gamma-Rapho, via Getty Images.
Image Tags | female(s)
Letter of Recommendation: Instagram Explore
Newspaper | New York Magazine
Date | 5.1.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | Instagram, social media
Summary | As consumers of the internet, we are used to being subjected to algorithms calculating what we might be interested in and feeding it back to us. The algorithm on the Instagram Explore page is however is very difficult to decipher because it suggests things that seem unlikely but somehow it still works: users are often surprised by how they like something that they never would have expected. The Instagram world nurtures a society of narcissists and excentrics who are apt at expressing themselves. For the first time, one persons guilty pleasure or secret hobby can be put online and receive a global applause in form of emojis and messages in various languages.
Image Description | Collage of artsy trompe l'oeil eye makeup by Instagrammer Gulianna Maria Bosco.
Image Tags | female(s)
Sexting’s paradox: it’s just no fun
Newspaper | New York Magazine
Date | 24.2.2014
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | online dating, research/study, sexting
Summary | Many people lie when sexting, meaning that they might be having a snack in their kitchen wearing sweat pants but writing something completely different. Because sexting is so completely detached from any actual physicality the mere innuendo is enough to entertain participants, even if it does not lead to an actual orgasm. Sexting is in a way a 'shared daydream'. A recent study reports that about half of their informants had sexted even though they were not really up for it.
Image Description | Photograph of a topless woman lying on a bed on her stomach with two kittens and jeans ripped so that they reveal parts of her behind.
Image Tags | female(s)
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