Number of Posts: 41
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Pling, Pling, Doppel-Pling
(Ding, Ding, Double-Ding)
Newspaper | Süddeutsche Zeitung
Date | 30.9.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | addiction, smartphone, social media, WhatsApp, youth, YouTube
Summary | A day in the life of a 13 year old who receives 200 messages a day. Lina uses her smartphone first thing in the morning and last thing at night. Though her father does not necessarily like her constant use of the smartphone and the notifications all the time, he is not worried about an addicion. Parents were taught about the risks on parent-teacher meetings. Lina is in a ton of group chats and is beginning to use Musical.ly. YouTube is a staple entertainment source for her.
Image Description | Lina with the smartphone on her bed and a hand holding a smartphone.
Image Tags | female(s), hand(s), smartphone
Hasskommentare im Internet
(Hate comments on the internet)
Newspaper | Wiesbadener Kurier
Date | 30.11.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | cyberbullying, law, social media
Summary | Hateful comments are hard to avoid online. A local school hosted a workshop about how to deal with hate comments. It is important to counter hateful, polemic comments. Either by debunking them, so demonstrating that they are plain wrong by providing credible facts, by ironizing them, or in extreme cases by getting the police involved. A correlation between a lot of hateful comments about refugees and hate crimes has been confirmed.
Image Description | Twitter icon.
Image Tags | logo, Twitter
Experte für die digitalen Medien
(Expert of digital media)
Newspaper | Rheinische Post Düsseldorf
Date | 5.1.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | digitized education, research/study, social media
Summary | Prof. Dr. Michael Beisswenger is a German Linguist researching the influence of new media on language use. He is also interested in the possibilities of e-learning, what we make of social media, and how how we use digital writing tools. He is involved in the research project CLARIN-D where a team of researchers analyze a large corpus of online chat data.
Image Description | N/A
Bilder-Märchen
(Image fairy tales)
Newspaper | Stern
Date | 12.1.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | Instagram, marketing, social media
Summary | Advertisers are increasingly pouring their budgets into social media instead of trasitional media. Instagram has developed into an important platform for creating trends through 'influencers' - Instagram personalities with large followings. They are paid money and given products for free to promote the brand and most often this content is not explicitly labeled as advertising.
Image Description | N/A
So erobern Zahnspangen-Mädchen die Werbewelt
(This is how girls with braces are conquering the world of advertising)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 8.2.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | Instagram, law, marketing, Snapchat, social media, youth, YouTube
Summary | A new breed of celebrities has emerged: social media celebrities or 'influencers' as they are called in marketing. These ordinary youths have millions of followers on Instagram, Snapchat, Musical.ly, or YouTube and are attractive to advertisers, not only because of their large following but because their fans feel personally close to them and are more likely to accept advice from them than from a distant celebrity. It is however still illegal to covertly advertise a product without notifying viewers that they are viewing sponsored content.
Image Description | German Musical.ly stars Lisa and Lena.
Image Tags | female(s)
"Kinder wissen oft genau, was sie ins Netz stellen können"
("Children often know exactly what they can put on the web")
Newspaper | Berliner Morgenpost
Date | 24.9.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | emojis, selfie, Snapchat, social media
Summary | Selfies are the quintessential symbol of contemporary society. Selfies are less for remembrance like holidasy photos used to be but for instant communication - to let someone know how one feels, where one is, and what one is doing. The expression of emotions through selfies adopts the function of emojis but in a personalized way. Some people opt for reproducing trends such as the duckface while others strive towards originality. Snapchat is very popular because it is short-lived and there is less pressure to be perfect which is commonly known about selfies otherwise.
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Hashtag Guide für die Wochentage
(Hashtag Guide for the week days)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 22.11.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | Instagram, social media, Twitter
Summary | Instagram is a sphere of happiness. To be a good Instagrammer one has to post cheery content every day and every day of the week has an appropriate theme: MondayMotivation, TravelTuesday, WednesdayWisdom, ThrowbackThursday, FriYay, Caturday, and SundayFunday. For exhibiting cynicism users should go to Twitter.
Image Description | N/A
Die unsympathische Trauer-Pop-Kultur in den sozialen Medien
(The uncongeneal pop culture of grieving on social media)
Newspaper | Berliner Zeitung
Date | 24.12.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | emojis, Facebook, social media
Summary | Social media has led to a distasteful culture of showcased grieving on social media. Facebook is quick to prepare an "in safety" option so that people close to the site of a tragedy can mark themselves as survivors. Within minutes, artwork related to the particular even is circulating on the internet and people change it to their profile images. All of this does not help the victims so it is just a staged display of emotions for appearing considerate.
Image Description | PrayForBerlin artwork.
Image Tags | hashtag
Was mit dem iPhone begann, wird mit gläsernen Menschen enden
(What started with the iPhone will end with glass humans)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 9.1.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | smartphone, social media, threat
Summary | Exactly ten years ago Steve Jobs presented the first iPhone - a pioneer among smartphones. In the past ten years we saw an unprecedented change in communication. With technological innovation our digital communication has become more and more multimodal. The general tone has become quicker, more informal, and contains emojis. Social media are taking over what used to be social hobbies like sports clubs and such. It remains to be seen whether future generations will consider the broad surveillance and big data as boon or bane.
Image Description | Getty image of Steve Jobs with the first iPhone.
Image Tags | smartphone
Soziale Medien: Auf dem Weg in eine Post-Schrift-Gesellschaft
(Social media: on the way to a post-literate society)
Newspaper | Berliner Zeitung
Date | 8.2.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | emojis, language threat, politics, social media, Twitter
Summary | Dystopias are being written about what is going to happen to society in the age of increasing digitalization of life. Predictions include that we will lose the ability to read and write because we will be able to do everything through voice command. We can already order piza at Domino's by using emojis only. The new literacy culture is limited to 140 characters and resembles in fact more an oral culture in which the truth is what is screamed the loudest.
Image Description | Reuters photograph of an eye with the Twitter logo mirrored in it.
Image Tags | logo, Twitter
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