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Twitter founder: Trump presidency is product of short attention spans
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 13.9.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | politics, social media, threat, Twitter
Summary | Evan Williams, one of Twitter's founders, claims that Donald Trump's online behavior is showing how social media platforms are making us dumber. Indeed, social networks are based on short attention spans, and they also undermine open-mindedness and our sense of truth. According to Williams, advertising models are to be blamed.
Image Description | Portrait of Donald Trump.
Image Tags | male(s)
For this company, online surveillance leads to profit in Washington’s suburbs
Newspaper | Washington Post
Date | 10.9.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | emojis, privacy, social media, threat
Summary | Babel Street is a startup that uses online surveillance; they try to get private information from online platforms in order to catch cybercriminals. For instance, police departments might use the service provided by the company in their investigations and scan posts online. Experts try to track dangerous criminals while analyzing posts in more than 200 languages, including the emoji language. Emoji has actually been a challenge for analysts. Another challenge the company faces is to make sure sure it doesn't violate people's privacy.
Image Description | Photograph of a man standing in a news room in front of several TVs, and two other people.
Image Tags | female(s), male(s)
Facebook Faces a New World as Officials Rein In a Wild Web
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 17.9.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | censorship, Facebook, marketing, privacy, social media, threat
Summary | Facebook’s head of global policy management recently agreed to remove anything that violates the Vietnamese law from the social network. Governments around the world (even in the US) are increasingly trying to keep control of what's happening online. As a result, governments and big tech companies such as Google, Apple, Facebook or Amazon don't always agree with each other. On the one hand, big tech companies want to have more control and power, and on the other hand, nations want to gain more control over people's online behvior. Facebook's desire to expand everywhere (e.g. in China) is one of the reasons for today's struggle between tech companies and nations. Facebook also faced some issues in Europe and Africa.
Image Description | Photograph of people using computers in a computer room, map of Facebook's users, two women laughing in front of a board displaying social media icons, Mark Zuckerberg and other people running in China, Mark Zuckerberg, his wife and daughters, glass building, people in front of a thumb-up sign, woman, crowd (some of them are using their phones), and people on their computers.
Image Tags | computer/laptop, Facebook, female(s), male(s), smartphone, social media
China Blocks WhatsApp, Broadening Online Censorship
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 25.9.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | censorship, threat, WhatsApp
Summary | The messaging app WhatsApp has been blocked in China. WhatsApp -which is owned by Facebook- was the last of Facebook products available in China. Indeed, both Facebook and Instagram are unavailable in China. To block the messaging app WhatsApp, the Chinese government may have created a special system that can intercept WhatsApp messages. Because of censorship in China, users have to turn to other messaging apps that can be easily controlled by the Chinese government (e.g. WeChat). When WhatsApp was blocked, many Chinese users complained.
Image Description | Photograph of a man staring at his phone.
Image Tags | male(s), smartphone
Are smartphones really making our children sad?
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 13.8.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | (mental) health, addiction, childhood, smartphone, threat, youth
Summary | Children's relationship with screens has become a contested topic; not everyone agrees with what should or shouldn't be done. Last week, the Atlantic published an excerpt of Jean Twenge's book (the Atlantic article was titled "Have smartphones destroyed a generation?"), which initiated very diverse reactions. Jean Twenge, who is an American pychologist, said that social media have a negative effect on young people. Twenger then answered some of her critics in this Guardian article.
Image Description | Photograph of a group of teenagers all staring at their phone or tablet.
Image Tags | female(s), male(s), smartphone, tablet
Alexa ist jetzt immer und überall
(Alexa is now anywhere, anytime)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 28.9.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence
Summary | Amazon has presented many devices which operate with Alexa, their artificially intelligent assistant. Actually, all Amazon devices now incorporate Alexa, except Kindle. They aspire that Alexa become a member of the family, present in all parts of your house - including the garage and even the bedroom, as well as your car. Amazon has made a deal with BMW Seattle that their on-board assistant will be Amazon's Alexa. Other tech firms like Google, Apple, and Samsung also offer AI assistants.
Image Description | A series of Amazon's AI devices presented by hands or entire men.
Image Tags | hand(s), male(s)
Sie erklären Rezepte von Foodie zu Foodie
(They explain recipes from foodie to foodie)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 29.9.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | Facebook, marketing, YouTube
Summary | The Hamburg-based company Foodboom creates high-quality cooking videos and distributes them online on Facebook and YouTube reaching millions of viewers. They try to hit the balance between high-quality content, food-wise as well as visually, and simplicity in the sense of easy to recreate in anyone's home kitchen. They finance themselves with product placement which they always indicate very clearly.
Image Description | A picture of a hamburger, a dinner party, and a portrait of the two owners of Foodboom.
Image Tags | female(s), male(s)
Doppelte Zeichenzahl bei Twitter? Nicht für Donald Trump
(Doubled number of characters for Twitter? Not for Donald Trump)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 28.9.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | politics, texting, threat, Twitter
Summary | Twitter has announced that they will be testing a doubled 280 characters limit per tweet with a small test group. The 140 character limit is a remnant of Twitter's text-message related past and they have considered expanding it before, now they finally test it. The expansion of the character limit is meant to apply to all languages except Japanese, Chinese, and Korean because these languages already require less characters to express more content. Multiple Twitter users already panicked on Twitter saying that nothing can stop an international conflict if Donald Trump gets twice as much space on Twitter now. Twitter however confirmed that @realDonaldTrump is not included in the small test group.
Image Description | A screenshot of @realDonaldTrump's profile and a tweet about the new 280 character limit.
Image Tags | female(s), hashtag, male(s), Twitter
La police du fun n'aime pas vous savoir seul
(The police of "fun" doesn't like to know that you're feeling lonely)
Newspaper | 24 heures
Date | 26.8.2017
Language | French
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | emojis, texting
Summary | When you type a text and specific words, you can see emojis pop up. If you type "alone" for instance, a sad-looking emoji appears. However, can't the word "alone" mean something else? Does it have to be something bad?
Image Description | Portrait of the author.
Image Tags | male(s)
«Genève veut être une référence»
("Geneva wants to be a reference")
Newspaper | La Tribune de Genève
Date | 11.9.2017
Language | French
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | computer programming, digitized education, school
Summary | Some cantons introduced computer programming as part of their school curricula, but Geneva is not one of them. It seems that they're focusing on digital equipment. Introducing digital culture to students is not enough; what about teaching them to be "critical" and talking to them about the dangers that they can face? Anne Emery- Torracinta and Marie- Claude Sawerschel answer some questions.
Image Description | Photograph of a teacher and a student working on an interactive board.
Image Tags | male(s), school
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