Number of Posts: 26
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Children are humiliating victims by using memes and chat rooms to 'roast' them in the latest cyberbullying craze
Newspaper | Mail Online
Date | 25.7.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | childhood, cyberbullying, gender, texting, youth
Summary | Parents and teachers are worried about one type of cyberbullying; children pick on another with offensive abuse until the victim ‘cracks’. Girls seem to be twice as likely as boys to be perpetrators and victims of cyberbullying (boys seem to be more involved in physical bullying). It usually happens in group chats where people know each other. Cyberbullying is a competitive activity; the most offensive thing someone says, the better. One of the downsides of the digital era is cyberbullying and our children's protection.
Image Description | Photograph of a girl in front of her computer screen and photograph of a boy looking at a tablet screen.
Image Tags | computer/laptop, female(s), male(s), tablet
Barking mad or brilliant? Smart collar for dogs lights up to tell you how your pooch is feeling
Newspaper | Mail Online
Date | 20.10.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | smartphone
Summary | You can now hook up your dog's collar to your smartphone app to monitor your dog's mood. The collar glows different colours depending on dog's emotions. The collar was invented by Japanese man Joji Yamaguch. The goal of the product is to connect pets and owners on a deeper level. The company that created the collar also revealed two other products: 'CatQuest' (3D projection for cats), and 'PetPounds' (smartbands that encourage children to play with their pets to earn rewards).
Image Description | Photographs of dogs wearing the smart collar, illustrations of the different product designs, and photograph of a smartphone ( a cat is playing on the screen).
Image Tags | smartphone
Merkel says big internet firms 'distort perception': Chancellor demands Facebook and Google make their algorithms public
Newspaper | Mail Online
Date | 28.10.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | Facebook, Google, marketing, politics, privacy
Summary | Merkel wants Facebook and Google to be more transparent and reveal the algorithms that select stories people see. She claimed that those algorithms distort our perception of reality. Internet giants don't agree with that; they said that viewers have access to a wide range of opinions.
Image Description | Photograph of Angela Merket speaking at a conference, photograph of the Facebook logo with the reaction buttons, and Twitter logo.
Image Tags | Facebook, female(s), logo, Twitter
Facebook backs down in race row: Will stop advertisers using 'ethnic affinity' to target housing, employment and credit ads
Newspaper | Mail Online
Date | 11.11.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | Facebook, marketing, privacy
Summary | Facebook will stop its "ethnic affinity" practice that helps advertisers reach ethnic groups with housing, extension of credit, and employment ads. However, policymakers and civil rights leaders have been concerned about the use of the ethnic affinity option; those ads discriminate against people. The privacy and public policy manager at Facebook said that it is important to keep the option to include and exclude groups for advertisers.
Image Description | Screenshot of Facebook's 'Detailed Targeting' form, screenshot of a part of a Facebook page, photograph of a smartphone screen with social media logos on it
Image Tags | Facebook, logo, smartphone, social media
Two Saudi women are sentenced to 20 lashes for using bad language while arguing with each other over WhatsApp
Newspaper | Mail Online
Date | 24.11.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | censorship, game, gender, WhatsApp
Summary | Two Saudi women were sentenced to 10 days in prison and 20 lashes because they used bad language on WhatsApp. Saudi Arabia has been condemned numerous times for violating human and women's rights, and restricting freedom of expression. For instance, the game Pokemon Go was banned because it is similar to gambling.
Image Description | Photograph of a hand holding a smartphone with the WhatsApp logo on the screen, and photograph of the city of Jeddah.
Image Tags | hand(s), smartphone, WhatsApp
Learn to speak EMOJI: Translator app turns everything you say into popular symbols
Newspaper | Mail Online
Date | 17.12.2015
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis, translation, youth
Summary | Words do not always express the exact feeling people want to transmit, so emojis can help. Thanks to a new app (SpeakEmoji), you can now translate what you want to say (voice) into emojis. Emojis are a new universal language, so this new app is suited for our digital era. The app was first designed to help parents communicate through emojis. In 2015, an emoji was chosen as word of the year because it represented the mood and preocuppations of the year.
Image Description | Screenshots of the SpeakEmoji app, video of the new translator app, and video of how to use emojis in social media
Image Tags | emojis, male(s), social media
And on the second day, God made the smiley face and the thumbs up: New translation of the Bible is written in EMOJI for millennials
Newspaper | Mail Online
Date | 27.5.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis, translation
Summary | A translation of the Bible written in emojis is now available. The translator said that it makes the Bible more "approachable"; emojis can express emotions in a visual way and in a universal way.
Image Description | Excerpts from the Bible emoji, and screenshot of the online Bible emoji translator.
Image Tags | emojis
Frustrated or triumphant? You are probably sending the wrong signals by using these 12 commonly misunderstood emojis
Newspaper | Mail Online
Date | 20.4.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis, misunderstanding, research/study
Summary | Emojis can be misunderstood although their meaning is thought to be universal. A study revealed which emojis are commonly misunderstood (e.g. emojis with facial expressions). In 2015, the word of the year was an emoji, which shows how popular emojis are.
Image Description | Various images representing confusing emojis, and video of how to use emojis in media.
Image Tags | emojis
What emoji REALLY mean: Researchers rank the sentiment of everything from the happy face to the chicken in bid to make symbols easier to use
Newspaper | Mail Online
Date | 9.12.2015
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis, misunderstanding, research/study
Summary | Communicating with emojis can lead to misunderstandings; their meaning can be ambiguous. A study tried to rank them on an emotion scale based on how negative, neutral, or positive they are. Emojis are ideograms that not only represent emotions; they also transmit ideas.
Image Description | Chart representing the ranking of emojis based on their "sentiment score".
Image Tags | chart, emojis
'I don't think people are going to talk': Kanye West says everyone will communicate through emojis in the future as 'words get in the way'
Newspaper | Mail Online
Date | 21.11.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis, language threat
Summary | Kanye West thinks that people won't talk anymore in the future; they will use other (visual) means such as signs, emojis, or body language.
Image Description | Photograph of Kanye West and Kim Kardashian.
Image Tags | female(s), male(s)
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