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Afro-Frisur einer Schülerin wird zum Politikum
(Afro hair of a student becomes a political issue)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 2.9.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | diversity, Facebook, gender, hashtags, politics, school, Twitter
Summary | A black girl at a high school in Pretoria in South Africa was chastised for wearing her hair naturally in an afro. This resulted in a lot of backlash against the school on social media under the hasthag #StopRacismAtPretoriaGirlsHigh. As many as 28'000 people signed an online petition to end racism at schools and major polititians condemned the chastising of wearing natural black hair.
Image Description | A black woman doing another black woman's hair in a salon.
Image Tags | female(s)
"Apple, was hast du meinen Emojis angetan?"
("Apple, what have you done to my emojis?")
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 14.9.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis, Twitter
Summary | The new Apple update comes with redesigned emojis and people are devastated. The changed look of the emojis makes many users sad to the extend that they feel like they "have lost a friend", one person on Twitter writes. There are also a few new emojis, most notably: all emojis are available in multiple skin shades and most emojis now exist in a male and female version. There is also an emoji of a homosexual couple now.
Image Description | A series of Tweets about the new emojis.
Image Tags | emojis, Twitter
Twitter-Nutzer leiden mit diesem einsamen Opa
(Twitter user suffer with this lonely grandpa)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 18.3.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | cyberbullying, Twitter
Summary | A woman from Oklahoma tweeted a picture of her grandpa eating alone with the comment that he invited all six of his grandchildren and only she showed up. The tweet went viral with lots of people responding with sadness and others with anger at the grandchildren who did not show up. The attacks got so bad that the woman had to tweet out that her grandpa still loves all his gandchildren and that people should please stop threatening her cousins.
Image Description | Tweets.
Image Tags | Twitter
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