Number of Posts: 28
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«Der Hass in den sozialen Medien ist nicht neu. Er ist sichtbarer»
(«The hate in social media is not new. It's just more visible»)
Newspaper | Sonntagszeitung
Date | 12.3.2017
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | cyberbullying, politics, social media, youth
Summary | Pop-philosopher Richard David Precht talks about how hate comments are not a new development of the digital age. Back in the day people would call you on the phone and leave their hate comment or write letters. Today they are forever visible for everyone. Also the perception that young people are not as involved in politics and too preoccupied with social media is wrong, he says. The politically active in previous generations were just as much a minority.
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Maschinen sind nicht die besseren Menschen
(Machines are the better people)
Newspaper | Sonntagszeitung
Date | 14.5.2017
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, diversity, gender, translation
Summary | One could think that artificial intelligence robots are not racist or sexist but because they learn from information circulating on the internet, they are subject to the biases as most poeple. This is why a beauty contest judged by an AI robot favored white people as more beautiful. Online job listings can also be biased based on gender so that women will not see higher-paying job listings or gender inclusive language gets lost in translation.
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Leserbriefe
(Letters to the editor)
Newspaper | Sonntagszeitung
Date | 18.12.2016
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | language threat, research/study, school, texting, Twitter, word/writing
Summary | The Pisa study results show that the Swiss language education concept has failed. The reading skills of Swiss students are very poor. More time is being dedicated to foreign languages than to the native language - are children now supposed to learn German from Tweets and text messages in Swiss German?
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Eines der reichsten Länder knausert beim Bildungswesen
(One of the wealthiest countries is stingy about education)
Newspaper | Sonntagszeitung
Date | 19.3.2017
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | abbreviations, childhood, language threat, school, threat
Summary | Children nowadays get a smartphone as soon as they are physically able to hold one and spend their whole lives in an artificial, digital environment. All information is at their finger tips, they only need to know how to read. They mix languages and use more and more abbreviations. To top it off: the goverments cuts money from education.
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Emoji-Engpass bei Coop
(Emoji shortages at Coop)
Newspaper | Sonntagszeitung
Date | 10.4.2017
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | emojis, marketing
Summary | Coop is offering little plastic emoji figurines as customer gifts and collectables. The demand has become so great that the emoji toys were out of stock at times.
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Die Qual der Wahl
(The agony of choice)
Newspaper | Sonntagszeitung
Date | 9.10.2016
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | emojis
Summary | A new iOS app called "Emoji" allows users to vote on which new emojis should become available. Front runners right now are the shush emoji where the index finger is held up to the shushing mouth and the fingers crossed emoji (index and middle finger crossed).
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Hilfe @ mein Gott
(Help @ my God)
Newspaper | Sonntagszeitung
Date | 27.7.2014
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | email, texting, youth
Summary | More and more people are leaving their church. Both the protestant and Catholic clergy have come together and built an online platform for people to receive spiritual guidance via e-mail or text-message. The service has been quite popular since 2012 when its increased traffic due to the ending of the Maya calendar received a lot of media attention, particularly amongst people aged 14 to 30.
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Buch
(Book)
Newspaper | Sonntagszeitung
Date | 5.6.2016
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | emojis
Summary | A new book by Gavin Lucas called “The Story of Emoji” informs readers of how emoticons were invented and gradually developed into the variety of emojis we know today. The sequence of punctuation marks depicting a smiley face “: -)” was first used by a Pittsburgh-based computer scientist in 1982.
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Muttis Welt
(Mommy’s world)
Newspaper | Sonntagszeitung
Date | 28.8.2016
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | emojis, social media
Summary | Three women from Boston developed an app with 250 new emojis all depicting various aspects of parenthood and especially motherhood. The emojis address taboo topics of childcare and pregnancy such as being in labor, baby’s spit-up, and milk-pumping. Many parents however overshare these personal experiences on social media; a phenomenon previously named ‘sharenting’.
Image Description | Digital image representing three pregnant women emojis.
Image Tags | emojis, female(s)
Love Machine
Newspaper | Sonntagszeitung
Date | 27.3.2016
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, youth
Summary | Chinese chat robot Xiaoice is gaining popularity among teenagers. Many admit their love to the robot despite knowing that they are communicating with a machine. Xiaoice has even done the weather forecast on TV and achieved a score of 4.32 (out of 5) in linguistic naturalism. This example shows how far the development of AI has come. While robots still cannot think or are intelligent in the human sense, they can recognize patterns very quickly and can observe huge amounts of data. The robot thus compares language input to data from online chat forums to construct an appropriate answer.
Image Description | Screenshot of a scene from the movie 'Ex Machina'.
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