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Smartphone users beware - your battery could be leaking details about you online
Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 2.8.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | privacy, research/study, smartphone, threat
Summary | According to a research, your phone battery level could be used to track your online activity.
Image Description | Image of a low battery next to a warning sign, iPhone displaying a low battery, hand holding a smartphone displaying a game
Image Tags | game, hand(s), smartphone
Byte-sized guide for parents on how they can keep their children safe online this summer
Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 3.8.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | addiction, childhood, cyberbullying, privacy, research/study, threat
Summary | Parents want their kids to be safe online during the summer. A research shows that 8 to 16-year-old kids will spend about 130 hours on social media during the summer break. The article offers some tips to keep children safe (e.g. privacy and location settings, play together, how to deal with trolls and sexting, get children to play outside).
Image Description | Photograph of a kid holding a tablet of his/her lap, a kid's hand on a lapop, video about the Pokemon Go game, hand holding a smartphone, Minecraft characters, a little boy hiding his face, young woman making a face, two hands holding a smartphone, a child using a tablet.
Image Tags | female(s), game, hand(s), male(s), smartphone, tablet
Why are computers such a darned pain to use?
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 16.1.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | research/study, technology-free, threat
Summary | The author talks about her mother who never got online. She rejected everything related to new technology. A BBC survey showed that older people who don't want to use the internet are worried when they see that people are prioritizing online content over more traditional broadcasting. Banks or newspapers should nevertheless take into account people that feel left behind because they can't or don't want to get online. With new media, there is something new every month, and other things become out of date quickly.
Image Description | Two hands on a laptop keyboard, vintage radio, collage of four new technologies, and chart of UK's five tech types
Image Tags | computer/laptop, hand(s), keyboard
Sexting fears as more than a quarter of PRIMARY SCHOOL children have sent rude or sexually explicit messages
Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 7.2.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | research/study, sexting, threat, youth
Summary | A study questioned parents and primary school children about sexting or sex and new media. Shocking numbers of children in primary school have already made experiences with sexting. Considerable percentages of parents do not monitor their children's online activity and/or do not talk to them about sex.
Image Description | Getty images of a girl using a smartphone with only part of her face visible in one of them.
Image Tags | female(s), hand(s), smartphone
La letra, con ‘smartphone’, entra
(The letter enters with smartphone (pun with "la letra con sangre entra"))
Newspaper | El País
Date | 27.10.2014
Language | Spanish
Country | Spain
Topic Tags | grammar, research/study, social media, spelling, texting, threat, youth
Summary | Spelling and grammar are having a hard time in today's society; there seems to be too much lenience with regards to writing rules, which may be due to an incorrect use of new technologies. People should know when it is appropriate to use a specific register. It is okay to write a text message with abbreviations as long as users are able to change register and adapt their writing in an exam for example. A professor in Valladolid claims that handwriting as opposed to digital writing can be the solution to spelling and grammar mistakes. Social media and the way we write on those networks have a major impact on our writing skills. A study showed that the mistakes young people make in their writing assignments come from our habit to constantly write quickly and be spontaneous on social media. Those mistakes are mostly due to a lack of attention. The study also showed a positive aspect: with social media, we write more.
Image Description | Photograph of a group of four young people using their smartphone.
Image Tags | female(s), hand(s), male(s), smartphone
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