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Geek Mythology: Apps such as Snapchat show it's the medium that's the message
Newspaper | The Independent
Date | 7.5.2014
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | sexting, Snapchat, threat, youth
Summary | Snapchat seems to be designed specifically for sexting because all sent photographic material auto-destructs itself after a few seconds. These would ensure that one's nude images do not get distributed further. Snapchat however has a 'best friend' function which displays to everyone with whom users exchange the most snaps - this would be a hinderance in maintaining a clandestine sexting relationship. Also, teenagers use Snapchat most and surely not all of them sext. After all, only because the medium faciliates a specific activity does not mean that it will be used in that way.
Image Description | Photograph of a smartphone, held by a hand, video calling a group of people in a restaurant background.
Image Tags | female(s), hand(s), male(s), smartphone
Child-friendly web backed by Scottish Government
Newspaper | The Scotsman
Date | 11.2.2014
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | childhood, pornography, sexting, smartphone, threat, youth
Summary | Scotland's government along with several prominent companies and personalities are trying to raise awareness about educating children about internet safety. Only few parents discuss problems of online safety such as pornography or sexting with their children. Most importantly, youths should be taught about what they can do when they encounter content online that upsets them, that they can approach an adult, various help organizations available, or report inappropriate content.
Image Description | Photograph of a woman surrounded by schoolgirls learning about online safety.
Image Tags | female(s)
Hysteria Over Sexting Reaches Peak Absurdity
Newspaper | The Atlantic
Date | 10.7.2014
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | law, sexting, threat, youth
Summary | The law’s classification of juvenile sexting as child pornography is illegitimate. Puts emphasis of legal prosecution on distinction between consensual vs. non-consensual sexting. Non-consensual sexting may then be seen as harrassment or exhibitionism in which case a restraining order could be issued rather than putting the minor who takes explicit pictures of him- or herself in prison and on the sex offenders list. The need to update child pornography laws to exclude consensual sexting among minors became very clear in a Virginia case where the police wanted to photograph a 17 year old suspects' erect penis for court evidence.
Image Description | Close-up photograph of a male-persons groin are with the genitalia covered by the hands.
Image Tags | hand(s), male(s)
It's time to stamp out sexting: Teens will be teens, but parents must be parents
Newspaper | Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Date | 11.4.2014
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | privacy, sexting, threat, youth
Summary | Cases of teenage sexting keep sprouting up across the country. One cannot blame the youths because they are inexperienced and hormonal. They do not realize that creation, posession, and distribution of nude images of themselves or their peers constituted a child pornography felony with serious ramifications. Many sexts go viral nowadays, which makes sexual recklessness today much more dangerous. Some victimized teenagers have commited suicide. Parents must monitor their children's activities on their smartphones to protect them from themselves. They have all right to do so since they are paying for their cell phone plans.
Image Description | Illustration of a girl looking at her phone not seeing that she is about to jump off of a ledge.
Image Tags | female(s), smartphone
Is your teen "sexting"?
Newspaper | Wyoming Tribune Eagle
Date | 20.3.2014
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | law, selfie, sexting, threat, youth
Summary | The police in Cheyenne, WY have started to inform the public about the severe legal consequences of underage sexting. Taking a nude selfie as an underage individual is already a felony under the header of child pornography and so are ownership of distribution of such material, even as a minor. There have been a few sexting cases in the area with around 20 teenagers involved. Parents should warn their children of the dangers involved in making explicit photographs of oneself.
Image Description | Portrait of a local police officer.
Image Tags | male(s)
Swiss mayor suspended over nude selfies taken in office
Newspaper | Daily Monitor
Date | 19.8.2014
Language | English
Country | Uganda
Topic Tags | politics, sexting
Summary | Geri Müller, city mayor of Baden in Switzerland and member of the national parliament has been temporarily suspended while investigations are pursued into his recent sexting scandal. Müller had called the police on his 'woman friend' after she had refused to relinquish all data detrimental to his career and after she had threatened to commit suicide.
Image Description | Black and white illustration of a man's silhouette taking a selfie.
Image Tags | male(s), selfie, smartphone
Swiss parliament rocked by nude selfie again
Newspaper | Siasat Daily
Date | 26.8.2014
Language | English
Country | India
Topic Tags | politics, sexting
Summary | There have been two sexting scandals in politics in Switzerland recently. City mayor of Baden, Geri Müller, is being substituted by his deputy mayor after the scandal. An employee of the Swiss Federal Palace has been caught publicizing nude images taken inside the offices to a large audience online. She thought that this should not concern her career as it was just a 'part of her private life'.
Image Description | N/A
'Ripped from the cloud'; The celebrities whose images were stolen by hackers never meant to make them public and now have no control over their use.
Newspaper | Montreal Gazette
Date | 8.9.2014
Language | English
Country | Canada
Topic Tags | pornography, privacy, sexting, threat, Twitter
Summary | Recently Apple's iCloud was hacked and nude photographs of many female celebrities (Jennifer Lawrence, Kirsten Dunst, ...) were publicly shared online. This attack on celebrity's personal privacy is compared to the Swiss scandal secretary who tweeted nude images of herself at her workplace. While the celebrity nude image leak is seen as vile abuse, the Swiss secretary's misfortune is seen as her own fault. It is naïve to expect to be able to keep a Twitter account with 11'000 followers secret from one's employer.
Image Description | Photograph of Steve Jobs presenting the new iCloud technology.
The graphic selfies from inside the Swiss parliament
Newspaper | BBC News
Date | 24.8.2014
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | politics, pornography, sexting, WhatsApp
Summary | Switzerland saw two nude selfie scandals in and around politics this summer. A secretary working in the parlamentarian offices had been tweeting nude selfies taken on the premises. Parlamentarian and city mayor of Baden in Switzerland, Geri Müller, had been sexting with an online friend via WhatsApp, including an abundance of written messages and nude selfies. The Swiss public had been debating whether Müller's #selfiegate should have been newsworthy at all. What ultimately emerges is a double standard: the secretary lost her job within days and the mayor is still representing the Swiss people in parliament.
Image Description | Portrait of Geri Müller, Anthony Weiner, and a Thinkstock image of a hand holding a smartphone presumably taking a selfie.
Image Tags | female(s), hand(s), selfie, smartphone
Adeline Lafouine naked. Swiss parliamentary secretary suspended
Newspaper | Scallywag and Vagabond
Date | 7.8.2014
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | pornography, selfie, sexting, Twitter
Summary | The Swiss secretary who has been discovered in tweeting nude selfies from her workplace the offices of the Swiss Federal Palace in Bern has been suspended. It has been confirmed that she has worked as an 'adult actress'. Though she felt that she had all right to engage in publishing nude images and recording pornographic films without her professional life bein affected, her employers seem to think otherwise.
Image Description | The nude/risqué selfies posted by the secretary with pixellated nipples but with a visible face.
Image Tags | female(s)
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