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Violent thriller won't have many clicking 'like'
Newspaper | Washington Post
Date | 22.9.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | (mental) health, Facebook, social media, threat
Summary | The movie "Friend Request" is about the danger of social media and Facebook anxiety. The movie is unlikely to be popular though. In the movie, Laura is a popular college student and has a lot of Facebook friends. When Laura unfriends Marina, a shy student who posts a lot of gothic animations, Marina kills herself. The movie plot is a good idea, especially in the age of social media, but the movie fails to develop its characters.
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Tech’s sexism doesn’t stay in Silicon Valley. It’s in the products you use.
Newspaper | Washington Post
Date | 8.8.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | (mental) health, artificial intelligence, diversity, gender, research/study
Summary | Slicon Valley has been entangled in scandals around sexism and racism recently. Many innovations incorporate artificial intelligence which means that the software learns from data reflecting our social reality but which are biased. This leads to issues like image recognition not recognizing black people as humans but as gorillas because the data the program learned from included predominantly white people. A similar case is a health app that tracked various physical paramenters but not the menstrual cycle thereby disregarding a large proportion of the female population.
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The problem with becoming an inspirational meme
Newspaper | Washington Post
Date | 9.4.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | (mental) health, meme
Summary | The author of the article was suprised to see that her commute home from work had become a meme. She was photographed while riding her bike wearing heels and looking "determined". The comments were quite positive (e.g. "making it work", "divas bike too", or "goals"). However, the author then started to question those positive comments. Why is determination linked to a willingness to risk one's life? People nowadays seem to glorify work in an unhealthy way. For instance, the fact that a 94-year-old woman has been working at McDonald's for 44 years seems to be something people should be striving for.
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