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Facebook's first chatbot 'dating coach' launched to help singletons find love in the digital age
Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 19.4.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook, social media
Summary | Facebook has added the first ever dating chatbot called Lara. It poses a series of questions and finds a match for you. It can have a conversation, so it is not only yes or no questions. This chatbot allows you to date online without having to download an additional app.
Image Description | Images of a woman, smartphones, and chats with Lara, the Facebook dating chatbot.
Image Tags | Facebook, female(s), smartphone
How to see what Twitter thinks it knows about you
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 18.5.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | marketing, privacy, threat, Twitter
Summary | Twitter is spying on its users, even outside the app. It compiles or guesses information about the users and their interests to sell to advertisers for targeted advertising. Much of the guesswork they have to do is off but they collect lots of data about each user and try to guess their gender, for instance. Users can change their privacy settings so that Twitter does not track their activities on other websites and apps.
Image Description | Reuters image of silhouettes holding smartphones in front of the Twitter logo and a graph with statistics.
Image Tags | logo, smartphone, Twitter
Welcome to Twitter city: is there no limit to Jakarta's social media obsession?
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 21.11.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | Facebook, social media, Twitter
Summary | A Parisian study found that the city with the most active Twitter users is Jakarta. The city with 10 million residents is said to retain the mentality of a village through the extensive use of social media. Because of Indonesia's history of corrupt politicians and frequent natural as well as anthropogenic catastrophes, Indonesians have developed an unbreakable sense of humor in the face of terrifying news. Especially since the end of a dictatorship which censored free speech, Indonesians are excessively going to social media to post memes and otherwise poke fun at politicians.
Image Description | Getty image of many people on their smartphones in Jakarta, a satirical cartoon, as well as a few internet memes featuring politicians as well as Isis leaders.
Image Tags | female(s), male(s), meme, smartphone
Women tap into new roles as mobile internet scheme targets rural India
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 5.12.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | gender, Google
Summary | Only 2% of internet users in rural India are women. This huge discrepancy is being addressed with a new campaign sponsored by Google. A local woman is teaching the other women (and some men) to use the internet to, for instance check the current national retail price of onions so that middle men cannot rip them off. She is also teaching illiterate women how to use the internet with voice command.
Image Description | Woman with a bicycle cart with internet devices and women using tablets and smartphones.
Image Tags | female(s), smartphone, tablet
2016: the year Facebook became the bad guy
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 12.12.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | cyberbullying, Facebook, fake news, law, threat
Summary | 2016 has been a bad year for Facebook. Many scandals surrounded the company. It became clear that Facebook is now longer just an advertizing machine with access to almost 2 billion people world-wide but that it also curates what news media most of these people perceive - whether Facebook wants to accept this or not. They no longer just have to deal with sensoring nudity and human rights violations content but also fake news. While Zuckerberg denies that the fake news bubbles have influenced the presidential elections, his company at the same time makes tons of money selling exactly this persuasive power to advertisers.
Image Description | The Facebook reaction emojis and dislike (thumb-down) emojis, glasses in front of like buttons, and a man holding a smartphone with the Facebook logo in the background.
Image Tags | emojis, Facebook, logo, male(s), smartphone
'They're collaborating all the time': the schools making the most of mobile
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 13.1.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | childhood, digitized education, school, smartphone, youth
Summary | Some schools are embracing the technological advancements influencing our everyday lives by incorporating them into their classes. Some classes have even become entirely paper-free! Not all, however, the learning tools are chosen so as to to help maximize students' learning. Students are already familiar and comfortable with most of the technology and it makes no sense to ban smartphones from classrooms if they can enhance learning.
Image Description | Two girls looking at a smartphone together.
Image Tags | female(s), school, smartphone
No, WhatsApp can't get you 'free internet without WiFi' - don't fall for the scam
Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 16.1.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | threat, WhatsApp
Summary | Scammers are trapping people on WhatsApp with the offer of free internet service abroad without wifi. Users ought to be careful. Usually in these scams, users are sent a link from an unsuspecting contact which leads them to a website where they have to enter their personal data (which will be used to profit from them) and asked to share the link with a number of contacts to get the service.
Image Description | Getty image of a woman frowning at a smartphone with a WhatsApp icon in the background and some screenshots of the scam message and the website.
Image Tags | female(s), logo, smartphone, WhatsApp
Digital friends making you lonely? Here are 9 things to do other than check Facebook
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 2.3.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | (mental) health, Facebook, research/study, social media
Summary | Recent statistics say that more young people feel lonely than old people - despite those active social media lives. Psychologists are eager to explain that social media activity cannot replace real human companionship. There are many things one can do to exit the social media anxiety habit: joing a class or club too meet new people or to see good friends on a regular basis, have phone calls with friends, spend weekends with friends, learn to be happy while being alone sometimes - this can be achieved by meditation and mindfulness.
Image Description | A series of Alamy images showing a woman using a smartphone in bed, a woman holding a smartphone with a laptop in the background, and various images of social activities with no technological devices (dinner, birthday party, wine drinking, gardening class) as well as a man using a laptop and smiling while talking on the phone and a woman meditating.
Image Tags | computer/laptop, female(s), hand(s), male(s), smartphone, WhatsApp
Chatbot that overturned 160,000 parking fines now helping refugees claim asylum
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 6.3.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook, law, WhatsApp
Summary | A Stanford student has developed a chatbot on Facebook messenger that helps refugees apply for asylum in the US, UK, and Canada. It helps them fill out the necessary forms by using plain English and they are working on an Arabic translation. He wishes he could have the service on WhatsApp so that it would be better encrypted.
Image Description | Facebook chats on smartphones and a laptop.
Image Tags | computer/laptop, Facebook, smartphone
Sexting: A language our children must never learn
Newspaper | Daily Telegraph
Date | 20.4.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | abbreviations, childhood, sexting, technology-free, threat, youth
Summary | Youths are using abbreviations to keep their parents out of the loop like LMIRL (let's meet in real life). The police have published a list of these to help parents monitor their children. It is sad that children and teenagers have such low self-esteem that they do anything to receive validation from their digital peers. This is not just youth culture or rap music's fault but rather the parent's fault. They are always busy and spend too much time on their smartphone rather than gracing their children with face-to-face attention and smartphone-free activities.
Image Description | Getty image of a teenage boy smirking at a smartphone.
Image Tags | male(s), smartphone
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