Number of Posts: 26
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Facebook Groups Act as Weapons Bazaars for Militias
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 6.4.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | Facebook, law, marketing, threat
Summary | Since Facebook has enabled the transmission of payments via the site, it has seen an increase of commerce on the platform. Most worryingly, many Middle Eastern Facebook group pages advertise and apparently sell fire arms (everything from pistols over machine guns to missiles) via Facebook. Facebook has forbidden the sale of fire arms on their platform but they have to rely on users to report such cases.
Image Description | Images of the weapons on sale on Facebook, ISIS fighters, and refugee boats.
Image Tags | Facebook, male(s)
"Mit 5G erreichen wir die Geschwindigkeit unserer Nervengefäße"
("With 5G we'll achieve the speed of our nerve tracts")
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 25.2.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | marketing, smartphone, texting, WhatsApp
Summary | Mobile service providers in Germany have to change their marketing strategies because the market is changing. Fewer people are sending traditional SMS text messages and more people use WhatsApp or similar instant messaging services. Now, mobile service providers have to put everything on the resources they still control: mobile data. They are working on faster mobile data connections (5G).
Image Description | Portrait of the interviewee (Vodafone director).
Image Tags | male(s)
So gefährlich ist die dunkle Seite der Online-Werbung
(This is how dangerous the dark side of online advertising is )
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 11.5.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | Facebook, Google, law, marketing, threat
Summary | Hackers have found new ways to enter people's computers more effectively. Online advertisements can run a malware script as soon as one is on the website where the advertisement is shown - without clicking on it. This is dangerous for all websites that display advertising - the biggest advertisers online being Facebook and Google.
Image Description | Image of the Google headquarters with a male silhouette in front of it.
Image Tags | Google, logo, male(s)
Snapchat Is Playing Cool With Brands and Stars
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 19.12.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | marketing, Snapchat
Summary | A lot of famous people (musicians, actors, politicians) use social networks, which makes big social network companies happy because celebrities attract more users. However, Snapchat (unlike other social networks) does not give celebrities such as Jay Sean special treatment. Snapchat wants to treat all of its users the same way in order to provide a more authentic experience.
Image Description | Photograph of Jay Sean
Image Tags | male(s)
So gewaltig wie die Erfindung der Schrift
(As huge as the invention of writing)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 21.6.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | (mental) health, artificial intelligence, cyberbullying, Facebook, law, marketing, politics, threat
Summary | The digitalization is the most significant development of our time. Created for the democratization of information, it can however also be used for the opposite. The Chinese government are already using the internet as a means to survey their citizens and assess their loyalty. Artificial intelligence technologies are in place to calculate the shortest way to your destination, predict crimes, predict illnesses and cancer risks, as well as what book you will buy next. Amazon sends customers unsolicited products because the loss of having to return the product by mail is smaller than the profit of the customer keeping the well suggested item. Facebook has been created to connect people within a community but the platform cannot battle the hate language and cyberbullying to the extent that it influences presidential elections.
Image Description | Heisenberg media image of the author at a public speaking event with another man.
Image Tags | male(s)
Mein Heim, mein Google
(My home, my Google)
Newspaper | Die Zeit
Date | 19.5.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Google, marketing, privacy, texting
Summary | On Google's Innovation presentation, they have presented their new products. Everything is largely chatbot-based, they are coming out with a home assistant much like Amazon's Echo and some new Messaging apps through which businesses can offer in-app services, for instance restaurant reservations. The Messaging apps are also supposed to be able to suggest appropriate responses to content. Privacy is also an important topic, all these innovations are designed with maximum security in mind.
Image Description | Getty Images of Google representatives presenting innovations.
Image Tags | male(s)
Googles künstlich intelligenter Chat-Freund
(Google's artificially intelligent chat friend)
Newspaper | Tages-Anzeiger
Date | 8.9.2016
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Google, marketing, social media
Summary | Google is launching a new messaging app called Allo. Messaging apps are hailed to be the new thing after social media. Especially messaging apps lie the Chinese WeChat or Allo which have an AI assistant with which users can easily get simple information from within the app, transmit payments, or open a small shop that operates through the app.
Image Description | Reuters image of a man presenting Allo at a conference and a few screenshots of conversations with Allo's chatbot.
Image Tags | Google, male(s), text
Wenn das Handy antwortet: So zahlen wir in Zukunft
(When the phone responds: this is how we will pay in the future)
Newspaper | Handelszeitung
Date | 2.3.2017
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Google, marketing, smartphone
Summary | Various companies like Google and Amazon are coming up with new conversational commerce solutions, i.e. (voice command) chatbots with which one can conversationally make purchases online. Making payments via smartphone apps is very common in China while Switzerland is lagging behind. Some companies like Mastercard are already working on further ways to pay, namely by verbal cues. This means that people will only have to say it to secure the payment.
Image Description | Two informational videos and a series of photos from a technology convention.
Image Tags | female(s), hand(s), male(s), smartphone, tablet
Jetzt kommt die Sticker-Schwemme
(The sticker flood is on its way)
Newspaper | Tages-Anzeiger
Date | 15.11.2016
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | abbreviations, emojis, Facebook, language threat, marketing, social media
Summary | Emoticons (f.i. ":-D") and abbreviations (f.i. "LOL") have trickled down from "geek speak" and established themselves in the mainstream. Emojis are nowadays ever present in our digital communication as well as in other arenas such as film or advertising. Now various social media platforms, among them Facebook, offer users various palettes of stickers. They are larger versions of emojis and are sent as an image file rather than included on the keyboard as a letter. Because many sticker palettes need to be purchased, a whole economy is beginning to form: The Japanese messaging app Line has sold over $250 mio worth of stickers last year. We do not need to fear that emojis and co. will replace language as we know it.
Image Description | Commodified emojis in various forms (as balls, as tattoos, as bed sheets, as food, on clothing, as masks, etc.) and Facebook messenger chats using/purchasing sticker collections.
Image Tags | emojis, Facebook, male(s), social media
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)
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