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Rise of the defrienders: Nine in ten young people have been 'ghosted' by their friend or partner
Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 6.5.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | smartphone, social media, texting, youth
Summary | “Ghosting” or defriending someone by text or social media is a new phenomenon. It seems that young people prefer using their smartphones and laptops to end relationships instead of doing it face-to-face. The term "ghosting" came from Katy Perry's song "Ghost" where she talks about ex-husband Russell Brand who had not spoken to her after demanding a divorce via text. Thanks to social media and the fact that you can hide behind your phone it is now easier to defriend people by ghosting.
Image Description | Photographs of two hands holding a smartphone, Russell Brand and Katy Perry, a man using his phone and looking at it, a hand holding a smartphone displaying the Facebook icon.
Image Tags | Facebook, female(s), hand(s), male(s), smartphone
'Snowden' filmmaker Oliver Stone warns Pokemon Go is creating a totalitarian world filled with robot-like people
Newspaper | Mail Online
Date | 22.7.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | game, privacy, smartphone, social media, threat, virtual reality
Summary | The game Pokemon Go has become so popular that it has overtaken major social media in number of active users. Oliver Stone spoke about the smartphone phenomenon as 'a new level of invasion' that could potentially lead to totalitarianism and a culture of surveillance. Internet giants are tracking everyone's online behavior, especially through the game Pokemon Go.
Image Description | Photograph of Oliver Stone, photograph of three male children looking at their smartphone, photograph of actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and photograph of Edward Snowden
Image Tags | male(s), smartphone
Miss Belgium 'condoned the N word and used a brown poo emoji' in response to Instagram pic of black man
Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 20.1.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis, social media
Summary | Romanie Schotte, Miss Belgium 2017, added a poo emoji in response an Instagram post where a black man was a called a n*****. She then said she was not racist because her dad worked in Africa. People started an online campaign to strip her of her title of Miss Belgium. Schotte also said that the poo emoji was supposed to represent a chocolate ice cream.
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Teen poses for sick selfie with car wreck after crash that killed truck driver in a fireball
Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 6.4.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis, social media
Summary | A teenager was involved in a car accident that killed a truck driver. The teenager then posted a selfie with the wreck of his volvo and added a teardrop emoji next to "RIP Volvo". The truck driver's widow was angry and disgusted that the boy shared the picture on social media three days after the accident.
Image Description | N/A
The royal twitterati: how the monarchy learned to love social media
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 16.2.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | Facebook, Instagram, marketing, social media, Twitter, YouTube
Summary | The British royals have a striking social media presence. Experts say it is very well curated with high quality images and videos and very well chosen language. They are currently looking for a new social media employee but the offered salary in no way reflects the huge responsibility of the job.
Image Description | Getty image of the Queen and of Prince Harry getting tested for HIV as a promotion of getting tested.
Image Tags | female(s), male(s)
Farm sparks outrage with video of miniature horse eating from HIGHCHAIR like a baby as it's branded animal abuse
Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 22.2.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | Facebook, Instagram, social media
Summary | A video caused a lot of controversy on Facebook. A video of a miniature horse eating while seated in a human toddler's high chair was posted online and it was intended to be cure. Many people did not think so arguing that this is animal abuse.
Image Description | Video of a miniature horse eating carots while seated in a high chair.
Family ties: how to get parents involved in children's learning
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 24.2.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | childhood, Facebook, school, social media
Summary | It is important to involve parents in their children's education so that it continues after school is over. A way to do this is to assign homework that involves parents or involve parents in a school day. However, not all parents have time for this because they work a lot. Another way to keep parents involved in their children's schoolwork is sharing it with them on social media. There are programs to share photos or classwork videos with parents.
Image Description | Alamy image of a woman and a girl looking at an molecule model.
Image Tags | female(s)
Big data’s power is terrifying. That could be good news for democracy
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 6.3.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | fake news, politics, social media, threat
Summary | Big data makes big new innovations possible. It has already been assumed that recent elections were manipulated by fake news targeted to gullable individuals on social media. Other people are looking into options of how big data can be used to improve democracy, for instance the Pirate Party in Iceland.
Image Description | An illustration of hands 'cracking' a computer and an image of female Icelandic politicians from the Pirate Party.
Image Tags | female(s), hand(s), keyboard
Former female marines: Facebook page only the latest instance of sexual abuse
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 8.3.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | cyberbullying, Facebook, gender, social media
Summary | The American Marine Corps has always had huge problems with female sodliers being sexually harrassed and assaulted. The harrassment has gotten exponentially worse since the advent of social media. Nude images of the women are now shared in Facebook groups, accompanied by hateful language. Some women report being threatened on Facebook.
Image Description | Personal photographs of a female marine in a helicopter and a portrait.
Image Tags | female(s)
Fighting fake news: societies using technology to search for truth
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 0.0.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | censorship, Facebook, fake news, politics, social media, threat
Summary | Many countries are trying to combat fake news and urging Facebook to find ways of combatting fake news. They influence elections by deceiving people and that is a great problem. It is nearly impossible to identify fake news with a program, it takes a human. Facebook is now allowing users to flag suspicious content, which is then reviewed and if deemed fake, labeled as such and displayed with a lower priority. Fake news are not taken off of Facebook because that would be censorship.
Image Description | Shutterstock images of protesters against fake news.
Image Tags | female(s), text
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