Number of Posts: 103
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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)
Woman's hilarious rant after Original Source shower gel 'leaves her vagina ablaze' - and she's not alone
Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 11.5.2016
Language | German
Country | UK
Topic Tags | Facebook
Summary | A woman posted about a showering accident she had with a specific tingling mint-scented shower gel so that other people would not make the same mistake. She very graphically described how painful the shower gel is when it gets in contact with the genitals. People found her post hilarious and relatable so it was shared and commented on by many.
Image Description | Selfie of the woman with the shower gel, photos of the cosmetic product in question, Image bank image of a woman showering, Getty image of a man showering, and an image of a shower head running water.
Image Tags | female(s), male(s)
Mitú grows fast, furious with its Snap alliance
Newspaper | USA Today
Date | 22.2.2017
Language | German
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | diversity, Facebook, smartphone, Snapchat, YouTube
Summary | The video entertainment company Mitù which is geared towards authentic representation of latinos and latinas on various social media platforms like Facebook, YouTube, and now Snapchat. They have seen some growth since beginning to broadcast on Snapchat. They also noticed that they can build more intimacy with the viewers by not filming in a horizontal format since most their viewers watch their videos from a smartphone and a horizontal video layout creates a distance.
Image Description | Portrait of the person in charge of Mitù's Snapchat presence.
Image Tags | female(s)
Oh mein Bot!
(Oh my bot!)
Newspaper | Die Zeit
Date | 2.10.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook
Summary | Facebook messenger offers a lot of chatbots. They are however not very good - yet. They are most useful for finding out simple information quickly, quicker than if one were to google, say, the weather forecast. Developers are constantly working on improving chatbots. The most quickly developing technology is voice recognition so that people can speak with chatbots.Contrary to science fiction belief however, programmers have no intentions of making chatbots seem as human as possible - they should be efficient not mistaken for an actual person.
Image Description | Getty image of a CGI woman with a tablet.
Image Tags | female(s), tablet
Schweizer Firmen setzen auf Bots
(Swiss firms put their money on bots)
Newspaper | Tages-Anzeiger
Date | 27.12.2016
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook, privacy
Summary | Many companies in Switzerland are testing out chatbots to replace their telephone customer service. Many company chatbots can be contacted via the Facebook messenger. They are quite useful because they can organize tasks according to content and delegate them to the appropriate departments or help the customers themselves. Experts demand full transparency about what happens to customer data created in chatbot uses.
Image Description | Getty image of a woman's torso holding a smartphone, some chatbot chat screenshots and graphs.
Image Tags | female(s), hand(s), smartphone, text
Chat mit einem Untoten: "Ich vermisse dich auch"
(Chat with an undead: "I miss you too")
Newspaper | Spiegel Online
Date | 29.1.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook
Summary | A Russian programmer has made a deceased friend of hers into an artificial intelligence robot. She used all their numerous Facebook conversations to feed the robot so that it could learn his manneurisms. The toughest part is to teach a computer how to understand all non-literal meaninings we casually use while communicating.
Image Description | Image of the programmer and her friend.
Image Tags | female(s), male(s)
Hohe Ablenkung durch Handy am Steuer
(High distraction because of cell phone while driving)
Newspaper | Norddeutscher Rundfunk
Date | 11.4.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | law, smartphone, texting, threat
Summary | Many people text while driving and do not realize how dangerous it is - more dangerous than talking on the phone. The statistics calculated by the German police are not complete they assume that 10% of car accidents is caused by cell phone distraction of a driver. They advocate for a raising of the fines, they are too low now so that people are willing to risk a fine.
Image Description | Image of a woman holding a smartphone while behind the wheel, a totaled car and a portrait of the interviewee (police officer).
Image Tags | female(s), hand(s), male(s), smartphone
Pling, Pling, Doppel-Pling
(Ding, Ding, Double-Ding)
Newspaper | Süddeutsche Zeitung
Date | 30.9.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | addiction, smartphone, social media, WhatsApp, youth, YouTube
Summary | A day in the life of a 13 year old who receives 200 messages a day. Lina uses her smartphone first thing in the morning and last thing at night. Though her father does not necessarily like her constant use of the smartphone and the notifications all the time, he is not worried about an addicion. Parents were taught about the risks on parent-teacher meetings. Lina is in a ton of group chats and is beginning to use Musical.ly. YouTube is a staple entertainment source for her.
Image Description | Lina with the smartphone on her bed and a hand holding a smartphone.
Image Tags | female(s), hand(s), smartphone
So erobern Zahnspangen-Mädchen die Werbewelt
(This is how girls with braces are conquering the world of advertising)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 8.2.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | Instagram, law, marketing, Snapchat, social media, youth, YouTube
Summary | A new breed of celebrities has emerged: social media celebrities or 'influencers' as they are called in marketing. These ordinary youths have millions of followers on Instagram, Snapchat, Musical.ly, or YouTube and are attractive to advertisers, not only because of their large following but because their fans feel personally close to them and are more likely to accept advice from them than from a distant celebrity. It is however still illegal to covertly advertise a product without notifying viewers that they are viewing sponsored content.
Image Description | German Musical.ly stars Lisa and Lena.
Image Tags | female(s)
Ärger mit vermeintlich kostenfreien Apps
(Trouble with supposedly free apps)
Newspaper | Bergische Morgenpost
Date | 15.3.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | addiction, childhood, game, youth
Summary | Parents need to be warned about the hidden costs of supposedly free games. They are hugely popular among children and youths and free at first, like drugs where the first dose is often free, and then they get very expensive very quickly. Experts discourage parents from sharing their credit card information with their children. Addiction experts also advise parents to set up rules of smartphone usage with their children and enforce them - that is the only way how we can keep ourselves from getting addicted to our smartphones in a world of constant availability: by setting the limits ourselves.
Image Description | Pixabay photograph of a woman holding a smartphone.
Image Tags | female(s), hand(s), smartphone
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