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Wo geht's hier zur #bikinibridge?
(Which way is the #bikinibridge?)
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
Alerte sur les dangers des radiofréquences pour les enfants
(Radio frequency hazards for children)
Newspaper | Le Monde
Date | 9.7.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | (mental) health, addiction, childhood
Summary | Overexposure to new technologies and radio frequency can have a serious impact on children's health. Children are constantly exposed to tablets, smarthpones, toys, and baby monitors. However, more research is needed to prove the effects of radiofrequency on children's health.
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Faire le bien pour se sentir mieux
(Doing good to feel better)
Newspaper | Le Temps
Date | 29.10.2016
Language | French
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | (mental) health, research/study
Summary | According to a study, altruism makes people live longer and happier. Thanks to new technologies, people can help others more easily. For instance, Airbnb introduced a disaster response program to help people in need. Big corporations like Starbucks, Peugeot or Visa have also started to help people. Philanthropy has always existed, but it only concerned management positions. Now it also concerns everyday consumers.
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Peut-on repérer une personne dépressive grâce à ses photos Instagram?
(Can you spot a depressed person through his/her Instagram photos?)
Newspaper | Le Figaro
Date | 24.8.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | (mental) health, Instagram, research/study
Summary | Researchers have created an agorithm that is able to spot depressed people thanks to their Instagram photos. They studied 500 Amazon Mechanical Turk employees. The results show that depressed people's photos tend to be darker than the average Instagram photos, and they also tend to focus on blue and grey. Thanks to the study, researchers hope to be able to prevent depression in the future.
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App lets doctors trade photos of patients for advice
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 11.12.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | (mental) health, social media, threat, WhatsApp
Summary | Many doctors often consult with each other when they are unsure how to treat a patient. This becomes a problem when they share images of patients without their consent on unsafe platforms such as WhatsApp. Now a safer platform has been developed where registered doctors can pool their expertise. Especially doctors working with refugees who don't speak their language find this incredibly useful.
Image Description | Refugee children and women wrapped in blankets.
Image Tags | female(s), male(s)
Scary clown rumors, threats feed hysteria, leading to school lockdowns, arrests
Newspaper | Washington Post
Date | 6.10.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | (mental) health, law, school, Snapchat, social media, threat
Summary | In the weeks running up to Halloween, many schools and colleges have had attack scares. Students heard over Snapchat or Yik Yak or some other social media platform that a clown was on the prowl at their school/college. These theats always ended up being false but students were worried and so were parents. Schools have to take such threats seriously. The police are being very clear that there are legal repercussions for false attack threats.
Image Description | Clown video and scary clown masks.
Eine Welt aus Daten
(A world made of data)
Newspaper | Die Zeit
Date | 20.10.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | (mental) health, digitized education, language threat, law, privacy, threat, translation
Summary | Big data can revolutionize various aspects of our lives: cancer diagnostics can profit from it, e-learning can be tailored towards each particular student's needs, traffic can be managed more efficiently, the police can patrol more in high-risk areas and times, and real-time translation can be available on all smartphones. This could eradicate the need to learn foreign languages. There are critics however, because all of these improvements open up new questions about privacy and data exploitation.
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Digitaler Rausch
(Digital intoxication)
Newspaper | Berliner Zeitung
Date | 24.10.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | (mental) health, research/study, threat
Summary | Researchers fight about whether big data is the boon or bane of humanity. Collecting and analyzing large amounts of data which we produce all day every day can help modernize all aspects of human life and minimize errors. Doctors, or rather bots, could for instance keep track of a patients vitals after they get back home. Customer service with robots would be much more efficient and would eliminate waiting times.
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Facebook touts AI benefits as job risks loom
Newspaper | USA Today
Date | 1.12.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | (mental) health, artificial intelligence, threat
Summary | Facebook and other corporations are trying to improve artificial intelligence's image in society. Many people are afraid of it, that it will take away their jobs, or do not trust it with high-stakes tasks such as flying planes, overseeing children, or medical diagnoses. It is likely that all of these things will happen and a consortium of corporations of the digital world are trying to lift the stigma off of these facts. After all, we are already trusting artificial intelligence to remind us to take medication, to guide us through traffic while avoiding traffic jams, and so on.
Image Description | Portraits of two digital experts.
Image Tags | male(s)
Facebook lurking makes you miserable, says study
Newspaper | BBC News
Date | 22.12.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | (mental) health, Facebook, research/study, threat
Summary | Studies have shown that looking at other people's posts on Facebook can increase feelings of envy and be otherwise bad for one's mental health. Especially 'lurking' on Facebook, so not actually interacting with anyone on the platform but just looking at the content can be detrimental to one's emotional state and cause unrealistic standards which result in disappointment with one's own life.
Image Description | iStock image of a woman in a bar looking at her smartphone sadly/boredly.
Image Tags | female(s), smartphone
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