Number of Posts: 71
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Zusammen gegen Gorillas
(Together against Gorillas)
Newspaper | die Weltwoche
Date | 30.3.2017
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | online dating
Summary | A new dating app called "Hater" connects users based on what they both dislike. The users set up their profiles by checking a bunch of boxes indicating things that they hate, for instance the Gorilla Harambe, people who talk to animals as though they were babies, chewing on finger nails, and many others. This is a great way to get to know someone humoristically rather than to go through the usual boring online dating catalog of "what do you do?", "you like walks on the beach, too!" and so on.
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Emoji-Saugnäpfe
(Emoji suction cups)
Newspaper | die Weltwoche
Date | 16.3.2017
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | emojis, marketing, politics
Summary | Soon after Coop has started charging for plastic bags - to spare the environment of excessive plastic waste - have they introduced free plastic toys. They are shaped like emojis and are attached to a suction cup so that children can stick them to any smooth surface. This commodification of emojis must be worth it if they are ready to go against their own principles of environmental friendliness for them.
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Es flitzt der Rollstuhl
(The bolting wheelchair )
Newspaper | Tages-Anzeiger
Date | 16.1.2017
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | (mental) health, diversity, emojis
Summary | A German organization for the inclusion of people with disabilities into public life is offering a set of Inklumojis: emojis that depict people with disabilities. These include a man in a wheelchair with fire shooting out of the back suggesting speed, athletes with leg prosthetics, a romantic couple holding hands, one of them with a prosthetic arm, and many more. Emojis can normalize people with disabilities much easier than big advertising campaigns which is why they will attempt to have their emojis included by the Unicode Consortium.
Image Description | Emojis of people with diabilities.
Image Tags | emojis, female(s), male(s)
Zürich in Zeichen
(Zürich in signs)
Newspaper | Tages-Anzeiger
Date | 14.1.2017
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | emojis, game
Summary | Many new emojis have arrived to our smartphones recently. Tages-Anzeiger offers various emoji riddles for readers to participate. Keywords specific to Zürich are depicted as a sequence of emojis that readers have to decode.
Image Description | Emoji riddles.
Image Tags | emojis
Le poids des mots, le choc des images
(The weight of words, the shock of images)
Newspaper | 24 heures
Date | 19.2.2017
Language | French
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | emojis
Summary | The Finnish just released a series of 56 explanatory emojis. What we can learn from the Finnish is that they are good players, like seals and hippos, have a strong sense of humor and, in general, have the "kokko" which implies that they "are on fire".
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Les adieux «giscardiens» d’Oskar Freysinger sur Facebook
(Oskar Freysinger's "Giscardian" farewell on Facebook)
Newspaper | Le Temps
Date | 25.3.2017
Language | French
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | Facebook, politics, video communication
Summary | Oskar Freysinger chose to announce the end of his political career on Facebook.
Image Description | Portrait of Oscar Freysinger
Quand les émotions mènent le bal
(When emotions are leading the way)
Newspaper | Le Temps
Date | 9.5.2017
Language | French
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | emojis, Facebook, privacy, social media, threat
Summary | Nowadays, people don't take the time to "think" and go from one emotion to another very quickly, especially on social media. For instance, Facebook introduced its "reaction" buttons. Today, it seems that a laughing emoji is worth a long speech. Facebook can also gather its users' personal information thanks to the reaction buttons. Our communication is now based on emotions, which can be dangerous.
Image Description | Cartoon representing four people chatting; one of the speech bubbles includes a series of different emojis.
Image Tags | emojis
«Les «fake news» renforcent la valeur des infos sérieuses»
("Fake news reinforce the value of serious news")
Newspaper | Le Temps
Date | 27.1.2017
Language | French
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | Facebook, fake news, social media, threat
Summary | Traditional news media should not have to help social media find "fake news". Fake news can be a threat, but they can also give an advantage to journalists. Indeed, if there are a lot of fake news, an audience will appreciate a serious piece of news even more. Facebook has been blamed for the spread of fake news. However, Sheryl Sandberg claims that Facebook should not have to evaluate and select its content. External experts should do that. However, Facebook already filters some content related to hatred for example.
Image Description | Photograph of Mathias Döpfner and Mark Zuckerberg.
Image Tags | male(s)
«Le mobile est le meilleur ami des Milléniums»
("Mobile phone is Millennials' best friend")
Newspaper | 24 heures
Date | 16.3.2017
Language | French
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | addiction, pornography, smartphone, youth
Summary | Céline Cabourg and Boris Manenti answer some questions related to Millennials and their digital world. They say that today, the gap between teenagers and adults is getting more important. For instance, one teenager told Manenti that adults have different Facebook profiles; they only post pictures of their family and their vacation. In sum, they don't use social media the same way as young people. Moreover, teenagers view their smartphone as their best friend and not as a tool. What about "You Porn Generation"? It is true that children as young as 10 can have access to porn. Parents have an important role to play in their relationship with their children, and they should have open discussions with them.
Image Description | Photograph of three teenagers (one girl and two boys) on their smartphones
Image Tags | female(s), male(s), smartphone
L’intelligence artificielle, aussi raciste et sexiste que nous
(Artificial intelligence, as racist and sexist as us)
Newspaper | Le Temps
Date | 4.5.2017
Language | French
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, research/study, threat
Summary | A new research shows that artificial intelligence can also have biases and prejudices. The results are not really surprising but it can be dangerous if one uses AI to hire people for instance. The study shows that some AI programs actually reproduce racist and sexist stereotypes that exist in language. Researchers created an "association test"called GloVe and demonstrated that, for example, the machine associated names of flowers with positive connotations, and names of insects with negative ones, as would human beings do. The results are not surprising because learning machines are actually a mirror of human behavior.
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