Digital Discourse Database

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Is this the first Instagram masterpiece?

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Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 18.1.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | Instagram
Summary | Amalia Ulman started posting pictures on Instagram. She posed in lingerie, bragged about her lifestyle in LA, claimed she attended pole-dancing classes and had breast-enlargement surgery. People started hating her. However, all those pictures were a joke. Ulman had been playing a role, and all of her 89,244 followers had been fooled. She said that everything was planned with a beginning, a climax and an end. She was acting. Now, her pictures will be shown in two new exhibitions.
Image Description | Four Instagram pictures of Amalia Ulman
Image Tags | female(s), smartphone

Viva la Instagram! Photo sharing app will automatically translate foreign-language posts automatically

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Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 23.6.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | Instagram, translation
Summary | Instagram has announced an update that will allow its users to translate posts in foreign languages.
Image Description | Instagram logo next to a collage of the word "Hello" in different languages, two young women lying down and taking a selfie, screenshot of an Instagram post displaying the "see translation" option
Image Tags | female(s), Instagram, selfie, smartphone

Wo geht's hier zur #bikinibridge?

(Which way is the #bikinibridge?)

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Newspaper | Die Zeit
Date | 18.7.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | (mental) health, gender, hashtags, Instagram, threat
Summary | Instagram is the new place where beauty ideals are reproduced and policed. Such hashtags as the #thighgap and the #bikinibridge let users pull up a sea of skinny women's bodies which can be compared with each other. Although these trends are said to be about fitness and health, but the comments and likes show that the trends are more about a beauty ideal. This is misleading and dangerous.
Image Description | Shutterstock Image of a woman in a gym taking a selfie.
Image Tags | female(s), selfie, smartphone

Katie Lee on Culture and Cuisine at the Beach

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Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 3.6.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | Instagram, social media
Summary | A food journalist describes how she finds the best spots to blog about. She goes to Instagram and checks out the restaurants beforehand. The pictures of the food also give her a feel for what might be the best dish at a restaurant. It is always also important to ask locals, for instance taxi drivers.
Image Description | Photograph of the interviewee at the beach.
Image Tags | female(s)

Das sind die beliebtesten Fotos auf Instagram 2016

(These are the most popular photographs on Instagram 2016)

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Newspaper | Hamburger Abendblatt
Date | 1.12.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | emojis, Instagram
Summary | The undefeated queen of Instagram is Selena Gomez. She has the most followers: over one million. Many of the most-liked pictures on Instagram are hers. Another extremely popular picture on Instagram is of Christiano Ronaldo kissing the trophy of the European football championship. The general mood on Instagram is positive with the most popular emojis being hearts and the most popular hashtags revolving around happiness.
Image Description | Various popular Instagram posts.
Image Tags | emojis, female(s), Instagram, male(s)

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