Digital Discourse Database

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Ausbruch aus dem sexuellen Gefängnis der Monogamie

(Break free of the sexual prison of monogamy)

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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)

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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)

Dieser Chatbot reserviert den Tisch fürs Abendessen

(This chatbot makes dinner reservations)

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Newspaper | Welt
Date | 27.7.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook, language threat, youth
Summary | Facebook messenger now has the chatbot Botmio on offer which lets users make dinner reservations at restaurants. This is perfect for younger generations who are reluctant to pick up the phone to call a human to make a reservation - digital natives are "language lazy". They would rather just make a reservation online without interacting with another human.
Image Description | A hand holding a smartphone using a Facebook chatbot and a portrait of the Botmio inventer.
Image Tags | Facebook, hand(s), male(s), smartphone

9 Gründe, warum du dich auf den 30. freuen kannst

(9 reasons why you can look forward to your 30st)

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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

"Geht mal aus dem Bild, ich google gerade"

("Get out of the picture, I'm googling something")

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Newspaper | Die Zeit
Date | 18.5.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Google
Summary | All innovations at Google include artificial intelligence. So does Google Lens: it enables users to take a picture of anything and get information about it delivered by Google. If one takes a picture of a flower, for instance, one learns its specific name and classification, how to care for it, as well as contact information of florist shops nearby. The image and pattern recognition software needed for such a service is within the realm of artificial intelligence.
Image Description | A Getty image of Google CEO Sundar Pichai.
Image Tags | male(s)

Facebook-App soll das Gedankenlesen lernen

(Facebook app is supposed to learn mindreading)

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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)

"Wir wollen die Menschen aus ihrem Zombiesein aufwecken"

("We want to wake people up from their zombie existence")

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Newspaper | Die Zeit
Date | 3.3.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | game, smartphone, threat, virtual reality
Summary | Pokémon Go is an augmented reality game. It is different from virtual reality in that it uses the real topography around the player as the site of the game which is virtually enhanced with Pokémon which can be "caught". It was designed to make people engage with the outside world and each other while playing, to lead people into parks they never went to. The most effective way to do that nowadays is to create an incentive with the smartphone.
Image Description | Getty image of Pokémon Go players at night and a portrait of the interviewee.
Image Tags | male(s), smartphone

Das steckt hinter Googles Sucht nach Innovationen

(This is behind Google's addiction for innovations)

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Newspaper | Welt
Date | 1.9.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Google, privacy, translation
Summary | Google is always after the most exciting innovations. Their main focus at the moment is on artificial intelligence assistants which can be operated conversationally. Because they are voice-activated, issues with privacy come up: is Google's AI assistant constantly listening in? Google is working on solutions for making privacy settings as customizable as possible. Another big focus is translation. Google translate can already operate in 100 languages and now users can even scan, say a restaurant menu, and get it translated right away.
Image Description | Google CEO Sundar Pichai.
Image Tags | male(s)

Die Jungs von heute können einfach nicht mehr flirten

(The boys of today just can't flirt anymore)

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Newspaper | Welt
Date | 7.7.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | online dating, research/study, smartphone, social media, youth
Summary | Young people nowadays cannot flirt anymore. They are constantly tied to their smartphones - 57 hours per week a recent study says - and do not pay attention to what is going on around them. They are more comfortable communicating via a medium than face-to-face. Many girls lament on social media how there are no available boys. Young boys should look up form their phones more often - the girls would be grateful.
Image Description | Getty images of young men and women with and without smartphones.
Image Tags | female(s), male(s), smartphone

Höre und glaube

(Listen and believe)

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Newspaper | Die Zeit
Date | 7.7.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Google
Summary | Google have big plans in arificial intelligence. They want to redefine themselves as an answer engine rather than a search engine. Google's AI assistant will be able to understand cryptic questions such as "did Germany win?... and Portugal?" as related to soccer and interpret the context correctly. It will also be able to understand non-native speakers of English such as Google CEO Sundar Pichai with his Indian accent.
Image Description | Getty images of Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Google vice president Ben Gomes.
Image Tags | male(s)

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