Number of Posts: 10
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Slain teen's mother urges Congress to amend Web law
Newspaper | Washington Post
Date | 20.9.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | law, pornography, threat, youth
Summary | The mom of a 16-year old teenage girl who's been murdered testified about her daughter. Desiree Robinson was 16 and was on Backpage.com. The alleged killer used Backpage.com to find young girls with whom he could have sex. The pictures that Desiree posted online were the reason that led to her death. Senator Rob Portman introduced a new bill that will end immunity for websites that host prostitution-related advertising. Online sex trafficking is a serious issue and we need to do something to fight it.
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Taking a break from the news
Newspaper | Washington Post
Date | 13.6.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | smartphone, technology-free, texting, youth
Summary | The author describes his vacation in Europe and notices a table of four Dutch teenagers in a café just talking to each other face to face like people used to do in the United States. No one was holding a smartphone, checking their messages, texting, posting something on social media or similar.
Image Description | Lake with hourses and boats.
Techie teens help bridge generational digital gap
Newspaper | Washington Post
Date | 16.5.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | email, emojis, smartphone, social media, youth
Summary | Teenagers are volunteering to teach elders about technology. They teach them simple things like how to use email, social media, how to connect to wifi, as well as how to use emojis. The elderly taking the courses love it because the kids do not use complicated language to explain the technology because they have learned it all intuitively as digital natives.
Image Description | Teenagers and elderly people using a laptop.
Image Tags | computer/laptop, female(s), male(s)
Techie teens help bridge generational digital gap
Newspaper | Washington Post
Date | 16.5.2017
Language | English
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | digitized education, emojis, gender, texting, youth
Summary | A grandmother texted her grandson a series of emojis to ask him how the pets were and how the hockey game was. Most of the seniors are not as tech-savvy as she is. As a result, three high school teenage girls decided to create a new organization called GTG Tech in order to help older people get more familiar with new media. They hold free training lessons once a month. Most of the seniors seeking help are women. The girls and older people think that the intergenerational exchange is very rich.
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Just how separated are we? Two cross-country hitchhikers use social media to prove it’s just four degrees
Newspaper | Washington Post
Date | 9.7.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | social media, threat, youth
Summary | Two millennials, Ari Gootnick, 23, and Oliver Shahery, 22, went on a road trip to see whether new technology and social media have changed our relationships and "shrunk the world". They showed that people are much more connected than they think they are. Through the project, the millennials are trying to prove that people are only four degrees of separation from other people. During their trip, they have seen close and long-lost friends as well as complete strangers. They also documented their whole trip on social media and said that the borders between physical and digital interactions are fluid.
Image Description | Three hotographs of both millennials in front of the Capitol in D.C., next to a car, and in the White Sands in N.M.
Image Tags | male(s)
Closing the generation app
Newspaper | Washington Post
Date | 5.3.2016
Language | English
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | digitized education, smartphone, youth
Summary | Diane Howard is 71 and she's taking a new class: an introduction to smartphones for retired people. Christian Magnuson is 16 and he's the teacher. Older people didn't grow up with smartphones, and they would like to know how to use them. For instance, Mary Ellen Saville, 69, would like to know more about the danger zones related to smartphone use. After a 90-minute session, the Christian's students knew more about selfies, text messages, ringtones, and Siri.
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Can this trendy D.C. hotel designed for millennials bridge the generation gap?
Newspaper | Washington Post
Date | 13.3.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | youth
Summary | Hotels have been adapting their services to please the millennial generation. For instance, they replaced older features (e.g. mini bar service) with more modern ones (e.g. free wifi, more outlets, etc.). Aaron Katz is the president of Modus Hotels (in Washington), and he thought about the millennials when he planned the Pod D.C.. Will the hotel increase the generational gap? Millennial Megan and Gen X Andrea talk about the hotel's features (amenities, technology, food and beverages, community spirit
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Melania Trump and the politics of airbrushing
Newspaper | Washington Post
Date | 5.4.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | Instagram, politics, youth
Summary | The official portrait of the FLOTUS Melania Trump is highly retouched. Her face shows no wrinkles and looks artificial while her hair is perfectly in focus. While retouching is the norm nowadays, this particular portrait is just so obviously photoshopped that people are talking about it. It is really reminiscent of current photographing practices where one always slaps an Instagram filter on an image. This trend is being counteracted by some like Kate Winslet or Alicia Keys but the extensive retouching of images to achieve artificial perfection is accepted by large parts of the public.
Image Description | Portraits of Melania Trump, Michelle Obama, and Laua Bush.
Image Tags | female(s)
In messaging apps for teens, talk of dangers and dollars
Newspaper | Washington Post
Date | 14.2.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | social media, threat, youth
Summary | Teenagers are moving away from public social media and towards private communication channels where they are unsupervised by their parents. Parents should however look into technologies to monitor their children's online activity - even on private media such as WhatsApp or Kik. Because Kik has reported a 40% increase in teenage users, businesses are eager to advertise on this platform. Online advertising is however moving away from banner ads to chatbots which approach the prospective customers in an informal conversational manner. For now, chatbots are only for advertising but they are planned to enable users to actually shop within a messaging app.
Image Description | Video about teenage deaths/pedophile crimes faciliated on Kik and a screenshot of a chat with the Kik chatbot.
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Field studies of the offspring
Newspaper | Washington Post
Date | 31.5.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | Facebook, smartphone, Snapchat, technology-free, youth
Summary | The research center conducts in depth interviews with today’s teenagers, the so-called Generation Z or digital natives, on behalf of various corporations. The aim of the study is to find out about this generation’s relationship with new technologies. They all value mobile/digital communication very highly, to the extent that many choose online colleges, online shopping, and home office work over actually having to physically go somewhere to study, work, or shop. They report of the abundance of messages each day and that they also highly value their offline hobbies, such as reading or knitting.
Image Description | Collage-like illustration of youths and online and offline activities.
Image Tags | female(s), male(s), smartphone, social media
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