Number of Posts: 31
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Das taugen Head-up-Displays zum Nachrüsten
(This is what head-up displays are worth as an upgrade)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 18.8.2014
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | threat
Summary | Technological innovations for improving driving security are being tested. The new displays are supposed to be positioned in such a way that drivers no longer have to divert their gaze from the road when wanting to check the directions, the speed with which they're driving, etc.
Image Description | Image of a woman driving with a head-up display and an image of a new car dashboard with the head-up display.
Image Tags | female(s)
Afro-Frisur einer Schülerin wird zum Politikum
(Afro hair of a student becomes a political issue)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 2.9.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | diversity, Facebook, gender, hashtags, politics, school, Twitter
Summary | A black girl at a high school in Pretoria in South Africa was chastised for wearing her hair naturally in an afro. This resulted in a lot of backlash against the school on social media under the hasthag #StopRacismAtPretoriaGirlsHigh. As many as 28'000 people signed an online petition to end racism at schools and major polititians condemned the chastising of wearing natural black hair.
Image Description | A black woman doing another black woman's hair in a salon.
Image Tags | female(s)
Arabische Frauen wehren sich gegen sexuelle Gewalt
(Arab women defend themselves against sexual violence)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 17.1.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | diversity, Facebook, gender, law, politics
Summary | Two women from Palestine have created a Facebook group called "Tuskuteesh" ("break the silence") where they want to give Arab women a space to tell their storiess of sexual violence. Much sexual violence goes unpunished in the Arab world because the perpetrators are often family members.
Image Description | Image of the Tuskuteesh Facebook logo and the cover of a book written by one of the group creators.
Image Tags | female(s)
Für kluge Menschen ist Twitter das bessere Tinder
(For smart people Twitter is better than Tinder)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 13.6.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | gender, online dating, research/study, Twitter
Summary | Online dating apps like Tinder clearly put the focus on images. Considering that many womenvalue a sense of humor very highly in a partner, people should be looking for partners on Twitter because that is where most people showcase their wit. A recent dating survery on Twitter has shown that many users are single and looking for a partner and that many follow other Twitter users out of romantic interest. Most however also report not thinking that Twitter is an appropriate platform to ask someone out on a date.
Image Description | Image of a woman in a cafe looking at her smartphone.
Image Tags | female(s), smartphone
"Wir können die Demokratie durch Schweigen verlieren"
("We can lose democracy by keeping quiet")
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 3.5.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | cyberbullying, law, politics
Summary | Journalist Dunja Hayali is a strong critic of online hate. It is ever present for regular people as cyberbullying and becomes more problematic when political figures like Donald Trump do it. He routinely debases women, muslims, and Mexicans on Twitter and goes unpunished. Hayali has previously sued people for posting hate comments about her online and one of her cyberbullies has just been charged.
Image Description | Portrait of journalist Dunja Hayali.
Image Tags | female(s)
Ausbruch aus dem sexuellen Gefängnis der Monogamie
(Break free of the sexual prison of monogamy)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 1.4.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | online dating, threat
Summary | Polyamory is a new social trend: it entails having multiple sexual/emotional relationships which are not equal like in polygamy. Some see it as a symptom of our over-saturation with choices in all aspects of life. The more choices there are, the more content one becomes with ones choices. This also plays into the fascination with Tinder and other online dating platforms. There are so many options that we are never satisfied.
Image Description | Getty images of multiple arms touching each other, men and women having sex, a black and white picture of a couple (man and woman) with child, and a wedding with two men and a woman.
Image Tags | female(s), hand(s), male(s)
Erfolgreiches Netzwerken geht auch ohne Facebook
(Successful networking is possible even without Facebook)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 6.3.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | Facebook, politeness
Summary | Facebook enabled event organizers to reach thousands of people. Because of these masses of invited people, accepting an invitation stopped being binding. Now the trend is towards smaller, more exclusive events for networking. Accepting an invitation to a smaller event is more binding and networking works better if the company is overviewable.
Image Description | A Getty image of a cocktail party and a portrait of two network specialists.
Image Tags | female(s), male(s)
9 Gründe, warum du dich auf den 30. freuen kannst
(9 reasons why you can look forward to your 30st)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 16.6.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | addiction, smartphone, technology-free
Summary | One of the reasons why becoming 30 years old right now is not so bad is that one is practically a digital native but remembers a time before omnipresent internet and digital devices. One knows how to use all things digital, i.e. "speaks the language of the zombies", but knows how to avoid becoming a zombie.
Image Description | Getty images of a woman blowing out candles, a pig farm, a medieval painting, a man with an alcoholic beverage, a crowd of people, two women taking a selfie, a woman sticking her head in a bush, as well as GIFs of a treadmill accident and a Star Wars meme.
Image Tags | female(s), gifs, male(s), selfie
Facebook-App soll das Gedankenlesen lernen
(Facebook app is supposed to learn mindreading)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 20.3.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | brain, Facebook, privacy, translation
Summary | Facebook is working on new technology to enable mind reading. This would enable users to type just by thinking and moreover possibly type in a foreign language they don't even speak. All this would be possible if we had sensors that could read brain waves and interpret them correctly. The developers at Facebook emphasize that only those thoughts would be read which are willingly shared by the user.
Image Description | Thinkstock image of two cyborgs.
Image Tags | female(s), male(s)
Saudi-Arabien verdammt Pokémon Go als unislamisch
(Saudi Arabia bans Pokémon Go as unislamic)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 21.7.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | game, smartphone, threat, virtual reality
Summary | Saudi Arabia has banned Pokémon Go because it falls under the rubric of gambling which is prohibited in Islam. Further, it resembles Charles Darwin's theory of evolution and some symbols in the game resemble Christian and Jewish symbolism. Some people have however illegally downloaded the game on their smartphones. It lets users "catch" Pokémon thanks to augmented reality.
Image Description | Hands holding smartphones with a woman wearing a hijab in the background.
Image Tags | female(s), hand(s), smartphone
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