Digital Discourse Database

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Emma Watson, Emilia Clarke and Harry Styles Instagram accounts HACKED in major social media security breach

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Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 1.9.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | Instagram, privacy, social media, threat
Summary | A few celebrities' Instagram accounts have been hacked because of a bug in the system. The phone numbers and email addresses of celebrities were being sold on the dark web.
Image Description | Portraits of Emma Watson, Emilia Clarke and Harry Styles, charts, and hand on a keyboard.
Image Tags | chart, computer/laptop, female(s), hand(s), male(s)

Awkward anti-texting ad gives motorists very good reason to put their phones away while driving

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Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 31.3.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | texting, threat
Summary | An anti-texting ad shows good reasons to put one's phone away while driving.
Image Description | Video of the ad, and two screenshots of the ad displaying people in a car.
Image Tags | female(s), male(s)

'Siri, I was raped': Study finds smartphone assistants unable to respond to help in a crisis

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Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 15.3.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, research/study
Summary | Smartphone personal assistants have been tested and they seem to be unable to respond well to help in a crisis (e.g. suicide, rape, abuse). Developers need to do more in order to improve those personal assistants.
Image Description | Photograph of a smartphone screen displaying the message "what can I help you with?", woman hiding her face with her hands, man speaking to his phone, man hiding his face with his hands, a woman's hands using a smartphone
Image Tags | female(s), hand(s), male(s), smartphone

Sick perverts ask schoolgirls to indecently expose themselves during lessons on live video app

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Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 25.3.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | childhood, pornography, privacy, school, smartphone, threat, video communication
Summary | Perverts have asked schoolgirls to expose themselves via live Periscope videos during lessons. While they were using the app, the girls received a lot of sexual comments. Periscope is an app that is also used by businesses and media organisations to stream events and conferences live. Viewers can then comment and ask questions live; those comments are displayed on screen and everyone can see them.
Image Description | Photograph of a student's hands holding a phone under a desk, photograph of an empty classroom,
Image Tags | cell phone, male(s), school

Google is training a 'bonkbuster bot' to write raunchy fiction by pumping it full of SOFT PORN

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Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 6.5.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Google
Summary | Google is training a machine to write soft porn novels in order to make the machine more conversational. Google's love machine will be able to see how words are combined and how they are used in order to better understand language.
Image Description | Two photographs of half naked women, and photograph of a man and a woman in bed
Image Tags | female(s), male(s)

Is this Britain's most high-tech classroom? Behind the scenes at one UK school's 'magic' 4D room

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Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 12.5.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | digitized education, school
Summary | A UK school shows what education will look like in the future. One school room is called the 4D room where there is a projected footage on the floor, walls, and ceiling, and an interactive floor for a more immersive experience. Pupils who have been to this room has been transported back in time or have been travelling to remote places. Digital natives will consider smartphones and other digital devices as normal. Therefore, educators need to find a way to deliver lessons that can grasp pupil's attention and imagination. They will still be using traditional classroom tools.
Image Description | Photograph of children in the 4D room, photograph of the 4D room, photograph of a woman standing in front of the UK school, photograph of interactive walls in the room, video about the classroom of the future
Image Tags | female(s), male(s)

Byte-sized guide for parents on how they can keep their children safe online this summer

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Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 3.8.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | addiction, childhood, cyberbullying, privacy, research/study, threat
Summary | Parents want their kids to be safe online during the summer. A research shows that 8 to 16-year-old kids will spend about 130 hours on social media during the summer break. The article offers some tips to keep children safe (e.g. privacy and location settings, play together, how to deal with trolls and sexting, get children to play outside).
Image Description | Photograph of a kid holding a tablet of his/her lap, a kid's hand on a lapop, video about the Pokemon Go game, hand holding a smartphone, Minecraft characters, a little boy hiding his face, young woman making a face, two hands holding a smartphone, a child using a tablet.
Image Tags | female(s), game, hand(s), male(s), smartphone, tablet

The secret cyber-life of 10 year olds: Children admit to actively hiding their online activity from parents

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Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 6.10.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | childhood, privacy, research/study, threat
Summary | About 51% of ten year olds have their own tablet and a 33% own a smartphone. Also, 42% claim they can hide their online activities from their parents. Young children can easily have access to digital devices, and are being exposed to bad language, violence, and pornographic content online.
Image Description | Two photograph of young children (males) looking at a screen, photograph of three young kids (females) using and looking at a tablet,
Image Tags | female(s), male(s), tablet

Augmented reality children's book brings bedtime stories to life in 3D

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Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 24.1.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | childhood, smartphone, virtual reality
Summary | Companies are trying to incorporate augmented reality to their products. For instance, you can now use an augmented reality app with 5 hardback books and transform bedtime stories in 3D.
Image Description | Video explaining how the app works, photograph of a tablet and a book, photograph of an open book, and photograph of a man and a woman
Image Tags | female(s), male(s), tablet

Mother's horror after sick perverts target her six-year-old daughter through online gaming app for young children

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Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 26.1.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | childhood, game, pornography, privacy, threat
Summary | Using a popular mobile gaming app (Roblox), perverts have been sending kids explicit and inappropriate messages. They've been trying to lure kids and ask them for their addresses. Jemma Casey is the mother of 6-year old Morgan, who was sent indecent messages. Other children have also been targeted.
Image Description | Photograph of a mom and her daughter, screenshots of inappropriate messages, and photograph of a mom and her son.
Image Tags | female(s), male(s), text

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