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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
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)
In Race Against Fake News, Google and Facebook Stroll to the Starting Line
Newspaper | New York Magazine
Date | 25.1.2017
Language | German
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | Facebook, fake news, Google, politics, threat
Summary | Google and Facebook are beginning to respond to the wide criticism that they do nothing to combat fake news on their platforms. Critics blame the uncontested spread of fake news for the voting of Donald Trump. Facebook and Google are now trying to block new providers on their platforms that spread misleading content but critics doubt that these measures are very effective.
Image Description | Getty image of a Google cafeteria.
Image Tags | Google, male(s), smartphone
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)
Worüber Flüchtlinge auf Facebook sprechen
(What refugees talk about on Facebook)
Newspaper | Der Standard
Date | 16.12.2016
Language | German
Country | Austria
Topic Tags | Facebook, politics
Summary | Refugees use Facebook to inform themselves about the journey to europe and to keep in touch with their family and friends. Human traffickers openly advertize their services on Facebook. One can learn quite a lot about the general attitutes of refugees - what they think of Europe and what their intentions are. Among refugees, images of overfilled trains and busses are posted as memes and commented with "this is us going back after the war is over in Syria".
Image Description | Photograph of young men charging their smartphones in a van and a meme with arabic captions.
Image Tags | male(s), smartphone
Facebook testet neues Symbol: Gefällt mir nicht!
(Facebook is testing new symbol: dislike!)
Newspaper | Berliner Morgenpost
Date | 7.3.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | emojis, Facebook
Summary | Facebook is testing a new reaction feature: a downwards-facing thumb. The dislike button has continuously been requested by Facbook users since the advent of the platform. Mark Zuckerberg had however always refused to integrate a dislike button because it would bring a negative vibe on Facebook.
Image Description | N/A
Ein Hashtag allein ist kein Zeichen für Mitgefühl
(A Hashtag is not a sign of empathy)
Newspaper | Die Zeit
Date | 24.12.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | emojis, Facebook
Summary | The recent terrorist attacks at a christmas market in Berlin have prompted a flood of empathetic social media postings. It is questionable how empathetic people really are when they showcase their solidarity on social media, say psychologists. They may just be submitting to peer pressure and conforming to what appears to be the popular, appropriate reaction - namely posting on social media.
Image Description | Getty image of a solidarity gathering with a woman holding a heart sign.
Image Tags | female(s)
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