Number of Posts: 27
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Esta notificación te está robando un pedazo de vida
(This notification is stealing a piece of life from you)
Newspaper | El País
Date | 5.5.2017
Language | Spanish
Country | Spain
Topic Tags | addiction, artificial intelligence, brain, smartphone, threat
Summary | Elon Musk said that in eight or ten years our brains will be perfectly connected to artificial intelligence. Facebook also announced that they want us to be able to write directly from our brain, with a "thought reader" helmet that would be ready in two years. We live in a world where people are not able to concentrate because of the noise our smartphones make when we receive notifications. Sherry Turkle claims that smartphones are not simple accessories; they are powerful devices that change not only what you do, but also who you are. Some people are worried about what the internet and artificial intelligence will bring in the future.
Image Description | Video about nomophobia
Image Tags | female(s), male(s), smartphone
Jekyll, Hyde y Facebook
(Jekyll, Hyde and Facebook)
Newspaper | El País
Date | 15.5.2017
Language | Spanish
Country | Spain
Topic Tags | research/study, social media, threat, virtual reality
Summary | The idea of dissociative personality (or multiple personality) has been exploited in various novels, comics and movies (e.g. Dr. Jekyll, Mr. Hyde, Hulk, The Mask, Mrs. Doubtfire). With the advance of virtual reality, the issue of dissociative personality will be more and more apparent, especially with social networks. The version of ourselves that we display online is a better version of ourselves. Our online clones represent what we would like to be.
Image Description | Photograph of Mark Zuckerberg
Image Tags | male(s)
Google Lens reconocerá cualquier cosa solo con apuntarla con el móvil
(Google Lens will recognize anything just by connecting it to your mobile phone)
Newspaper | El País
Date | 17.5.2017
Language | Spanish
Country | Spain
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Google
Summary | Sundar Pichai, Google's CEO, talks about Google and what it allows in terms of artificial intelligence (e.g. help detect cancer, translate texts to images, develop personal assistants and video immersion).
Image Description | Photograph of Google's CEO, Sundar Pichai, in front of a big screen where three smarthpones are projected.
Image Tags | male(s), smartphone
“Facebook no teme a los Gobiernos, pero sí a perder a sus usuarios”
("Facebook is not afraid of governments, but is afraid of losing its users")
Newspaper | El País
Date | 17.5.2017
Language | Spanish
Country | Spain
Topic Tags | censorship, privacy, research/study, social media, threat
Summary | Interview of the historian and journalist Timothy Garton. He talks about people's use of internet and how they can spread lies and truths. Private data, lies, truths, vigilance, and hatred circulate online. Garton claims that regarding freedom of speech, things are worse than before. According to Garton, it is part of what he calls a global anti-liberal counterrevolution. The enemies of freedom of speech are: states, and private superpowers such as Facebook, Twitter, Google, Amazon, Apple. Indeed, they also control what we see and do not see. When states and those superpowers come together, things can become dangerous.
Image Description | Photograph of Timothy Garton
Image Tags | male(s)
Tailandia logra censurar en Facebook un vídeo de su rey
(Thailand was able to censor a video of its king on Facebook)
Newspaper | El País
Date | 19.5.2017
Language | Spanish
Country | Spain
Topic Tags | censorship, Facebook, law
Summary | Thailand asked Facebook to withdraw 131 pages that contain "illegal" content (i.e. pages that violate strict laws concerning the royal family). Indeed, the royal family should not be criticized. One of the videos posted online showed the current king, Maha Vajiralongkorn, displaying his tattooed back and arms. Facebook accepted to withdraw the illegal content.
Image Description | Photograph of a Facebook profile with the picture of Mark Zuckerberg.
Image Tags | Facebook, male(s)
Redes sociales en las primarias del PSOE: una competición desigual
(Social networks in the PSOE primaries: an uneven competition)
Newspaper | El País
Date | 21.5.2017
Language | Spanish
Country | Spain
Topic Tags | hashtags, politics, research/study, social media, Twitter
Summary | The PSOE candidates in Spain use social media differently in their campaign. Sánchez knows the language of social networks very well and knows how to use them. He is the most active candidate on social media. Lopez was the first one to have a Twitter account and uses the social network intensively. However, he doesn't use the network the same way Sanchez uses it. Díaz only posted 670 tweets and has 115000 followers. Moreover, her language is not actualized; she uses the at sign @ too much. A study analyzed the online community of the candidates. When Díaz started using the hashtag #100por100PSOE, some people started attacking and criticizing her using the same hashtag. There are also multiple analytical tools that show different statistics regarding the candidates and their online campaign.
Image Description | Screenshots of the three candidates' Twitter profiles, and five different charts/graphs related to the candidates and their online campaign
Image Tags | chart, female(s), male(s), Twitter
Instagram, la peor red para la salud mental de los adolescentes
(Instagram, the worst social network for adolescents' mental health)
Newspaper | El País
Date | 21.5.2017
Language | Spanish
Country | Spain
Topic Tags | (mental) health, Instagram, research/study, social media, youth
Summary | According to a British study, Instagram can have a negative impact on its users. Young people who spend more than two hours a day on social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook or Instagram are more likely to suffer from mental health problems, especially anxiety and depression. One of the respondents said that Instagram easily makes girls and women feel as though their bodies are not good enough, so they add filters and edit their images to look perfect.
Image Description | Photographs of someone taking a picture of two girls
Image Tags | female(s), hand(s), smartphone
Las reglas secretas de Facebook para moderar contenido violento, sexual y amenazas racistas
(Facebook's secret rules for moderating violent, sexual content, and racist threats)
Newspaper | El País
Date | 22.5.2017
Language | Spanish
Country | Spain
Topic Tags | censorship, cyberbullying, Facebook
Summary | The Guardian revealed secret documents about Facebook's rules to filter its violent/racist/sexist content. The guide provides recommendations for various types of content: child abuse, threats of violence, or acts of animal cruelty. Facebook also believes that death videos should have a warning sign but they should not always be deleted because they can "raise awareness about mental problems". Recently, Facebook had to respond to various complaints concerning some content that was made public: the photograph of a naked girl victim of the Vietnam War, and the live broadcast of the murder of a man in Cleveland.
Image Description | Photograph of Mark Zuckerberg
Image Tags | male(s)
Jack el Destripador se queda desfasado en la era de Facebook
(Jack the Ripper is now old-fashioned in the Facebook era)
Newspaper | El País
Date | 25.5.2017
Language | Spanish
Country | Spain
Topic Tags | Facebook, social media, threat
Summary | Nowadays, the perfect crime seems to be the one that is retransmitted live. Does that mean that fame triggers more violence? Social media have changed a lot of things, and one of them is the chosen way to commit a murder. Indeed, it seems that the need for public display generated some changes in people's life, relationships and egos -which anyone can see- but also an incitement to murder. Would the Cleveland murder have happened without Facebook live?
Image Description | Photograph of Jiranuch Trirat (and some friends) in front of her daughter's portrait
Image Tags | female(s)
Esta es la tecnología que matará a tu ‘smartphone’
(This is the technology that will kill your smartphone)
Newspaper | El País
Date | 25.5.2017
Language | Spanish
Country | Spain
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, brain, smartphone, threat, virtual reality
Summary | According to some experts, augmented reality is threatening the future of mobile phones, and soon smartphones will disappear. Facebook is interesting in creating a parallel universe. In April, at a conference, Facebook talked about the possibility of writing directly from the brain. Virtual reality is the future, and it will offer information in an non-intrusive way. Experts point out, however, that the great challenge of such a technology is its high cost.
Image Description | Video about augmented reality
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