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Hijab emoji approved by Unicode
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 11.11.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis
Summary | The list of new emoji candidates includes a hijab emoji, a breastfeeding woman, and emojis with beard. A 15-year old teenager from Germany launched a campaign to introduce the hijab emoji
Image Description | N/A
Is Apple's move to ditch the gun emoji noble or dangerous?
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 5.8.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis
Summary | Apple decided to change the pistol emoji into a water gun emoji. Not everyone is happy about the change. There is also a problem of convention: users of other devices who receive a text message with a water gun emoji will see a gun emoji since Apple is the only one that introduced the water gun emoji.
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Apple, Facebook and Google ban rifle emoji from Olympics update
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 20.6.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis
Summary | A new rifle emoji was supposed to be released, but the Unicode Consortium decided not to add it. However, the pistol emoji is still there. The use of gun emojis has led to multiple debates. In France, a man sent his girlfriend a death threat in the form of a pistol emoji. The rifle emoji was supposed to be introduced to represent the Olympic sport.
Image Description | N/A
These 69 new emoji could be coming to your phone very soon
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 23.3.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis
Summary | The list of new emoji candidates includes a mermaid, zombie, and vampire emojis.
Image Description | N/A
What happens if you're both a man and a woman? Welcome to the 'third sex' generation
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 4.3.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | Facebook, gender
Summary | Facebook lets users choose from over seventy gender identities. Users can also just type in a new tem on how they wish to identify themselves gender-wise. More and more people are now learning about gender fluidity and realize that it is something that they identify with.
Image Description | Portraits of gender fluid celebrities.
Image Tags | female(s), male(s)
Facebook must show it can follow its own rules on child safety
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 7.3.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, censorship, Facebook
Summary | Facebook is struggling to comply to its own rules which prohibit all nudity from the platform. Their artificial intelligence software designed to take down all images of nudity works unreliably. Although Facebook is one of the safest spaces online, there are still problems.
Image Description | Reuters image of a lot of Facebook logos through a magnifying glass.
Image Tags | Facebook, hand(s), logo
Germany threatens to fine social media companies €50m for hate speech and fake news
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 14.3.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | Facebook, fake news, law, politics
Summary | Germany is threatening to sue Facebook should it not do something against abuse and fake news on its platform. Germany has very strong defamation laws so Facebook needs to regulate its content if they want to stay in Germany. A new mechanism to flag fake news has been developed.
Image Description | Reuters image of many Facebook logos under a magnifying glass and a portrait of Germany's Justice Minister Heiko Maas.
Image Tags | Facebook, hand(s), logo, male(s)
Netflix scrapping star ratings system in favour of 'thumbs up, down' reviews
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 17.3.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | Facebook
Summary | Netflix is replacing its five star rating system with a thumbs up/thumbs down option instead. The were inspired by Facebook. This is the way language works online. They have found that many more people are now rating the content on Netflix than before. They have also included a new percentage indicating how likely it is that certain titles will please specific users. They have gotten that idea from dating sites.
Image Description | A hand browsing Netflix on a tablet.
Image Tags | hand(s), Netflix, tablet
Meet the 'mega monk' changing our attitude to happiness, one tweet at a time
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 20.3.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | (mental) health, Facebook, smartphone, social media, Twitter, youth
Summary | A monk from Korea has gained a large following on Facebook and Twitter with short posts with life wisdoms. Many people respond to his preaching of mindfulness: the position that people should slow down and take the time to reflect on themselves and their emotional state without becoming obsessed. The monk thinks these little moments of mindfulness are nowadays more important than ever, when we tend not to interact with each other directly but only through smartphones.
Image Description | A bunch of portraits of the Twitter-famous monk in various surroundings and a few of his tweets.
Image Tags | male(s), Twitter
Instagram ranked worst social network for young people's mental health
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 19.5.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | (mental) health, addiction, Instagram, research/study, youth
Summary | Recent studies show that young adults aged 14 to 24 find that Instagram and Snapchat incease their sense of anxiety and loneliness the most. The most positivity boosting platforms were YouTube and Twitter. Mental health professionals are trying to stay informed on what youth's life looks like today so that they can better connect with them in a mental health crisis. Social media are more addictive than alcohol and cigarettes.
Image Description | Alamy image of two women taking a selfie on a beach and an image of a smartphone screen showing the Instagram logo.
Image Tags | female(s), Instagram, logo, selfie, smartphone
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