Digital Discourse Database

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Benefits of Study Abroad: ‘My Students Return Transformed’

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Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 12.4.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | diversity, selfie, smartphone, threat, youth
Summary | In response to the article “Study Abroad’s Seven Deadly Sins”, this university educator agrees that inappropriate selfies and ever-present smartphones are an issue among study abroad students. She however emphasized that such articles are not helpful at this time of heightened anxiety about rising nationalism and that students must instead be encouraged more strongly to go study abroad.
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Study Abroad's Seven Deadly Sins

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Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 8.4.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | politeness, selfie, smartphone, threat, youth
Summary | The seven deadly sins of studying abroad incude two sins related to the digital realm. First, study abroad students should at best not take a smartphone with them. It will keep them way to connected with their peers at home and the fear of missing out on activities at home will make them text with friends from home rather than meet new people in the foreign country they are supposed to be experiencing. Second, stay abroad students should be conscious of how they take their selfies - they can easily be disrespectful depending on the place and the pose one strikes.
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Is your teen "sexting"?

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Newspaper | Wyoming Tribune Eagle
Date | 20.3.2014
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | law, selfie, sexting, threat, youth
Summary | The police in Cheyenne, WY have started to inform the public about the severe legal consequences of underage sexting. Taking a nude selfie as an underage individual is already a felony under the header of child pornography and so are ownership of distribution of such material, even as a minor. There have been a few sexting cases in the area with around 20 teenagers involved. Parents should warn their children of the dangers involved in making explicit photographs of oneself.
Image Description | Portrait of a local police officer.
Image Tags | male(s)

Your online 'brand' can live for decades

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Newspaper | Telegram & Gazette
Date | 4.2.2014
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | selfie, sexting, threat, youth
Summary | Youths have been taking nude images of themselves since the advent of the polaroid camera so it is only fitting that sexting is becoming more and more common among teenagers today. What many don't fully realize is how these risqué selfies can ruin their life. Once they are sent, the sender loses all control over them. The recipient can willfully or by accident publish these images and there is nothing the victim can do about it. Experts advise youths to think about their 'online brand' which will likely live for decades and how they want it to represent them.
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