Digital Discourse Database

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China Disrupts WhatsApp Service in Online Clampdown

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Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 18.7.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | censorship, Facebook, Google, Instagram, privacy, threat, Twitter, WhatsApp
Summary | The Chinese government has partly shut down the use of WhatsApp within their borders. The app is widely used around the globe and was used by some in China do communicate with people outside of Chine with end-to-end encryption. Other popular social media platforms and internet sites like Google, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram are blocked under the "Great Firewall" in China.
Image Description | Woman using a smartphone and women standing in front of Facebook and Instagram logos as well as emojis.
Image Tags | emojis, Facebook, female(s), Instagram, logo, smartphone

Blind Facebook users 'see' photos

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Newspaper | USA Today
Date | 5.4.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, diversity, Facebook, Instagram
Summary | Facebook has a new function that is meant to make the predominantly visual platforms of Facebook and Instagram more inclusive to people with visual impairments. The new software uses artificial intelligence to tell blind users what is in the images. It is not perfect yet but the image recognition can identify simple things like specific sports, etc.
Image Description | Screenshots of Facebook feeds with the image content captioned.
Image Tags | Facebook

Geschichten eines Bilderstürmers

(Stories of an image stormer)

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Newspaper | Die Zeit
Date | 21.4.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | Facebook, Instagram, selfie
Summary | Instagram creator Kevin Systrom has created the most popular image-sharing social media platform world-wide. In Systrom's vision, Instagram could partly play the role that traditional news media pla today. To report of significant events as they are enfolding. Already, Instagram posts are printed in newspapers if no reporter was present on site. Facebook has bought the company for one billion dollars.
Image Description | Instagram creator Kevin Systrom with smartphones taking pictures of him.
Image Tags | Instagram, male(s), smartphone

"Gezieltes Storytelling in Bildern"

("Targeted storytelling with images")

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Newspaper | Die Zeit
Date | 21.3.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | Instagram, marketing, research/study, Twitter
Summary | Many companies use Instagram to target potential employees and brand themselves as a desirable work environment. More people in Germany use Instagram than Twitter and the job platform Xing so it is more feasible to advertise on Instagram than elsewhere if one's target audience is one of the main demographics on Instagram. Companies give out surveys to their employees to find out about their values and preferences and then design their INstagram storytelling according to it.
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Das Malbuch 2.0

(Coloring book 2.0)

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Newspaper | Welt
Date | 29.3.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | (mental) health, Instagram, smartphone
Summary | A new app called "Lake" is designed to reduce stress. It offers users mandalas and other illustrations made by Instagram-famous artists which users can color according to their aesthetic preferences. The app always greets the user with the motivational quote "Time well spent".
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Le pape François, roi de la communication digitale

(Pope Francis, king of digital communication)

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Newspaper | Le Figaro
Date | 16.3.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | Instagram
Summary | Pope Francis has 9 Twitter account and will soon create an Instagram account. He is one of the most influential people online. He claimed that images are powerful; they can unite people of different cultures and languages. Today, image and video exchanges dominate the digital world.
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Papst gibt auf Instagram Einblicke in sein Leben

(The pope gives insights into his life on Instagram)

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Newspaper | Welt
Date | 20.3.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | Instagram
Summary | Pope Francis is the first pope to create an Instagram account. He was known to appreciate digital communication and images as very powerful media to engage with one another. To create his account, he even received a visit from the CEO of Instagram.
Image Description | Pope Francis' Instagram posts (a picture and a video) and one Instagram post about it by Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom.
Image Tags | Instagram, male(s)

Wo geht's hier zur #bikinibridge?

(Which way is the #bikinibridge?)

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Newspaper | Die Zeit
Date | 18.7.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | (mental) health, gender, hashtags, Instagram, threat
Summary | Instagram is the new place where beauty ideals are reproduced and policed. Such hashtags as the #thighgap and the #bikinibridge let users pull up a sea of skinny women's bodies which can be compared with each other. Although these trends are said to be about fitness and health, but the comments and likes show that the trends are more about a beauty ideal. This is misleading and dangerous.
Image Description | Shutterstock Image of a woman in a gym taking a selfie.
Image Tags | female(s), selfie, smartphone

Täglich neue Inhalte generieren

(Generate new content every day)

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Newspaper | Schweizer Bank
Date | 16.12.2016
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | emojis, Instagram, marketing, Snapchat, social media
Summary | SIX's communication specialist has taken a university certificate course in social media management. It is very useful in highlighting the uses and risks of corporate social media use. Her job consists of creating original content on multiple social media profiles of her company. She has organized emoji battles and uploaded drone films of corporate events. One downside of the cetrificate course, she says, was that it never mentioned Snapchat or Instagram even though those are the most popular platforms among digital natives.
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The royal twitterati: how the monarchy learned to love social media

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Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 16.2.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | Facebook, Instagram, marketing, social media, Twitter, YouTube
Summary | The British royals have a striking social media presence. Experts say it is very well curated with high quality images and videos and very well chosen language. They are currently looking for a new social media employee but the offered salary in no way reflects the huge responsibility of the job.
Image Description | Getty image of the Queen and of Prince Harry getting tested for HIV as a promotion of getting tested.
Image Tags | female(s), male(s)

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