Number of Posts: 16
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When is a selfie not a selfie?
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 30.3.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | selfie, social media
Summary | Ben Innes posted a picture of himself with the man who hijacked his plane, and commented “best selfie ever”. However, a selfie is supposed to be a photograph that you would take of yourself with a smartphone. Was it really a selfie if the stewardess took the snap?
Image Description | Photograph of Ben Inness and the hijacker, screenshots of several tweets, front page of the Sun and The Times, and video of Ellen DeGeneres's famous selfie.
Image Tags | male(s), selfie, Twitter
Posting photos online is not living. You are producing your own obituary
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 29.5.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | social media
Summary | When people go on vacation, they take a lot of pictures and mostly see their screens. They don't need to look at landscapes -they have copies of sunsets and palm trees on their smartphones. Storing everything in digital form has become so common today. It seems that our experiences need to be recorded digitally in order to be real. Since we live in a materialistic world, our behavior makes sense. Our social media posts are just an obituary we write for future generations in order to show them that we lived.
Image Description | Photograph of a woman taking a selfie in front of the Eiffel Tower.
Image Tags | female(s), selfie
Now anyone can build their own version of Microsoft's racist, sexist chatbot Tay
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 31.3.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, social media
Summary | Microsoft now lets people build their own chatbots. Bots are the new app, and developers will soon be able to create bots that respond to chat messages. Big tech companies are now trying to build their own bots (e.g. Facebook, Google, Amazon, Slack, Microsoft).
Image Description | Digital image of a smartphone screen displaying a female face (Tay).
Image Tags | female(s), smartphone
Are Facebook and Twitter doing enough to protect users?
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 26.8.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | privacy, social media
Summary | Social networks have introduced new privacy measures to combat online abuse. For instance, Twitter has a new 'quality filter'. However, according to Alex Holmes, big social network companies should do more. For example, Twitter does not have a real name policy, which can create problems. Although everyone is coming up with new measures, it's impossible to filter everything.
Image Description | Photograph of the last Ghostbusters female stars.
Image Tags | female(s)
Does dark social have a bright future?
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 19.12.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, marketing, social media
Summary | Our social media posts don't reveal who we really are. According to a research, it seems that in private users like reading about crime, fashion and celebrities. In public, users share (but don't read) articles about books, wine and the arts. This is a problem for advertisers; the posts we share make us look good, but they can't be trusted. 'Dark social' is the solution; marketers will have access to the content of our conversations (on non public social networks) to personalize their products. Also, using artifical intelligence and natural language processing, marketers will be able to deliver to personal events and products.
Image Description | N/A
Taliban app removed from Google Play Store
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 4.4.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | Google, social media, threat
Summary | Google Play store removed an app that was developed by the Taliban and that was created as part of a digital campaign by the Taliban to grow its audience. The app gave users access to the Taliban's Pashto website. The group is also trying to maintain constant presence on social networks such as Twitter and Facebook.
Image Description | Photograph of a group of Taliban fighters.
Image Tags | male(s)
Are teenagers having less sex – and is social media the reason why?
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 10.3.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | addiction, research/study, social media, youth
Summary | Teenagers are having less sex; is it because of new media? One theory says that it might be because young people spend more time in their bedroom in front of their screen and less time socializing and getting drunk with friends. The drop in teenage pregnancies is also accompanied by a drop in teenage drinking levels. A US report claims that teenagers spend 9 hours each day on social media, and kids between 8 and 12 spend 6 hours online each day. Japan has one of the lowest birth rates in the world, and they even coined the word 'sekkusu shinai shokogun' which means “celibacy syndrome”.
Image Description | Photographs of a boy looking at a tablet, girl wearing sunglasses (we can see the Facebook logo in the reflection), two girls sitting back to back using their smartphone, classroom with students and teacher
Image Tags | Facebook, female(s), headphones, male(s), smartphone, tablet
How YouTube and Niconico fuel online fan culture in Japan
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 21.4.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | social media, YouTube
Summary | In Japan, video platforms such as YouTube and Niconico are very popular. The world’s fourth-largest internet population is in Japan, and Japanese users spend more time on video platforms than on social media platforms. The reason why Japanese people spend more time on video platforms is because they have been able to mould those video platforms to their own cultural norms (unlike social networks such as Facebook). Music streaming services have yet to reach Japan; physical CDs are still popular over there.
Image Description | Photograph of a Japanese girl holding a plate, video of Ariana Grande feat. Hikakin, and video about Izakaya (Japanese bar)
Image Tags | female(s), male(s), YouTube
Welcome to Twitter city: is there no limit to Jakarta's social media obsession?
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 21.11.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | Facebook, social media, Twitter
Summary | A Parisian study found that the city with the most active Twitter users is Jakarta. The city with 10 million residents is said to retain the mentality of a village through the extensive use of social media. Because of Indonesia's history of corrupt politicians and frequent natural as well as anthropogenic catastrophes, Indonesians have developed an unbreakable sense of humor in the face of terrifying news. Especially since the end of a dictatorship which censored free speech, Indonesians are excessively going to social media to post memes and otherwise poke fun at politicians.
Image Description | Getty image of many people on their smartphones in Jakarta, a satirical cartoon, as well as a few internet memes featuring politicians as well as Isis leaders.
Image Tags | female(s), male(s), meme, smartphone
‘We’ve grown up with some frightening events’: UK teenagers' hopes and fears
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 19.3.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | addiction, smartphone, social media, youth
Summary | Five teenagers and young adults talk about the society they live in (jobs, school, alcohol, social media, etc.). They blame social media for being a waste of time and for favoring bullying. Moreover, social media are responsible for spreading certain norms that young people are expected to follow (e.g. ideals of beauty for men and women). One teenage girl claims that social media make people competitive. Even though she agrees that smartphones are addictive, it would be hard for her to live without it because she wouldn't want to miss out on things.
Image Description | Series of six photographs: two teenage girls on their smartphone are sitting back to back, and portraits of the five interviewees.
Image Tags | female(s), male(s), smartphone
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