Digital Discourse Database

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Instagram, la peor red para la salud mental de los adolescentes

(Instagram, the worst social network for adolescents' mental health)

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Newspaper | El País
Date | 21.5.2017
Language | Spanish
Country | Spain
Topic Tags | (mental) health, Instagram, research/study, social media, youth
Summary | According to a British study, Instagram can have a negative impact on its users. Young people who spend more than two hours a day on social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook or Instagram are more likely to suffer from mental health problems, especially anxiety and depression. One of the respondents said that Instagram easily makes girls and women feel as though their bodies are not good enough, so they add filters and edit their images to look perfect.
Image Description | Photographs of someone taking a picture of two girls
Image Tags | female(s), hand(s), smartphone

L'explosion des troubles chez les tout-petits surexposés aux écrans

(Rise of disorders in toddlers overexposed to screens)

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Newspaper | Le Figaro
Date | 18.5.2017
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | (mental) health, addiction, childhood, school, smartphone
Summary | Toddlers overexposed to screens seem to demonstrate symptoms similar to autism, a doctor says. Toddlers have already access to smartphones. Sofiane, for instance, got his first tablet at the age of 18 months. His kindergarten teacher noticed that he never wanted to sit next to his peers, and would often space out. Moreover, he always needed an adult next to him to guide him. Those "screen children"often exhibit developmental delays as well as relationship, language and behavioral disorders. Children shouldn't have access to screens before 3. Some parents think that giving their toddlers "learning tablets" will help them in the future.
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Faire le bien pour se sentir mieux

(Doing good to feel better)

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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?)

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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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Instagram ranked worst social network for young people's mental health

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Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 19.5.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | (mental) health, addiction, Instagram, research/study, youth
Summary | Recent studies show that young adults aged 14 to 24 find that Instagram and Snapchat incease their sense of anxiety and loneliness the most. The most positivity boosting platforms were YouTube and Twitter. Mental health professionals are trying to stay informed on what youth's life looks like today so that they can better connect with them in a mental health crisis. Social media are more addictive than alcohol and cigarettes.
Image Description | Alamy image of two women taking a selfie on a beach and an image of a smartphone screen showing the Instagram logo.
Image Tags | female(s), Instagram, logo, selfie, smartphone

Jewish woman in Montana sues over 'troll storm' of neo-Nazi harassment

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Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 18.4.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | (mental) health, cyberbullying, social media
Summary | A Jewish family in a Montana town is being terrorized by white supremacist groups. There have been no actual physical attacks but trolls on social media are harrassing them, they receive tons of hateful phone calls, and even their employers have been urged to fire them. Tanya Gersh, the mother of the household is struggling with sever anxiety because of the cyberbullying (to put it mildly).
Image Description | Images of the town of Whitefish, Montana, and of a protest against the white supremacist groups there.
Image Tags | text

Exhausted students 'crying in toilets and breaking down in class' over 'unfair' new GCSE grading system

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Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 9.5.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | (mental) health, Facebook, politics, school, threat
Summary | A student has posted a rant about changes to the GCSE exam system making it yet more difficult. She describes how the whole student body has mental health issues since the changes were announced and just how ridiculous the expectations are. Her post has been shared almost 30'000 times by agreeing parents, teachers, and fellow students. Many commenters support her criticism while others show no understanding claiming that tests are meant to be hard.
Image Description | Getty images of someone writing with a pencil, and two images of exam situations, as well as a screengrab of the original Facebook rant.
Image Tags | Facebook, female(s), male(s), school

App lets doctors trade photos of patients for advice

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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)

Digital friends making you lonely? Here are 9 things to do other than check Facebook

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Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 2.3.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | (mental) health, Facebook, research/study, social media
Summary | Recent statistics say that more young people feel lonely than old people - despite those active social media lives. Psychologists are eager to explain that social media activity cannot replace real human companionship. There are many things one can do to exit the social media anxiety habit: joing a class or club too meet new people or to see good friends on a regular basis, have phone calls with friends, spend weekends with friends, learn to be happy while being alone sometimes - this can be achieved by meditation and mindfulness.
Image Description | A series of Alamy images showing a woman using a smartphone in bed, a woman holding a smartphone with a laptop in the background, and various images of social activities with no technological devices (dinner, birthday party, wine drinking, gardening class) as well as a man using a laptop and smiling while talking on the phone and a woman meditating.
Image Tags | computer/laptop, female(s), hand(s), male(s), smartphone, WhatsApp

Life looks good on the surface - so why are we all so lonely?

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Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 23.4.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | (mental) health, social media
Summary | Despite many people being very active and social on social media, very many often feel lonely. That is because social media cannot provide one with all aspects of friendship intimacy that humans need. Many people who seem to be living glorious lives on social media can in reality be much less happy because stress and rejection are not visible on their social media profiles.
Image Description | Portrait of the author and drawings of a woman holding a smartphone abstractly surrounded by 2D social media pages, two women having a meal together, and an old photograph of a girl looking at a framed picture/mirror.
Image Tags | female(s), smartphone

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