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Befreit Euch vom albernen Twitter-Gruppenzwang!
(Liberate yourselves from the silly Twitter peer pressure!)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 12.8.2015
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | social media, Twitter
Summary | Especially journalists are under a lot of pressure to build up their networks on Twitter. It is however really demanding to be successfully active on Twitter - it takes persistence and a lot of time. Many people are willing to invest this time so that they are even willing to sacrifice quality time with a friend to stay home and live-tweet their favorite TV show.
Image Description | Getty images collage of a protest crowd with Twitter related signs and screenshots of the author's tweets.
Image Tags | Twitter
Facebook und WhatsApp in der EU erst mit 16 Jahren
(Facebook and WhatsApp only after 16 years of age in the EU)
Newspaper | Der Bund
Date | 16.12.2015
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | law, Facebook, privacy, social media, youth
Summary | The EU has renewed the laws tied to data privacy originally made in 1995. The new laws now enable users of online platforms such as Facebook to sue these companies in their home country rather than having to travel. Also, some countries lift the legal age required to join social media from 13 to 16 years old. Young people under the age of 16 are legally not allowed to enter into a contract around data privacy with Facebook.
Image Description | Photograph of a hand holding a smartphone.
Image Tags | hand(s), logo, smartphone
Die optimierte Frau
(The optimized woman)
Newspaper | die Weltwoche
Date | 8.1.2015
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | Instagram, selfie, social media, youth
Summary | New social media platforms such as Instagram perpetuate unrealistic beauty standards because the seeming effortlessness of the snaps is in reality highly staged. Cosmetic surgeons assume that the obsession with physical perfection is responsible for the fact that people nowadays are much less apprehensive to undergo cosmetic surgery. The article makes a reference to danah boyd’s book It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens.
Image Description | Selfie of Karlie Kloss and Taylor Swift
Image Tags | selfie
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