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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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Digitale Selbstverteidigung
(Digital self-defence)
Newspaper | Die Zeit
Date | 21.2.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | cyberbullying, law, privacy, research/study
Summary | The anonymity of the internet allows for many dark deeds. Poeple should know how to quickly identify fake news, manipulated photographs, and what the legal ramifications of cyberbully (threats or slander) are. Users should also know the full potential of Facebook searches and how to stay anonymous on the internet - a series of tutorials is provided.
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Wie lustig darf die Polizei sein?
(How funny is the police allowed to be?)
Newspaper | Die Zeit
Date | 20.10.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | emojis, law, Twitter
Summary | Various police departments in Germany have taken to Twitter and they are using internet humor: sarcasm, emojis, puns, and so on. This is not funny because the police are supposed to be the butt of the joke and not making the jokes. Tweeting about crimes using emojis is also distasteful and inapropriate.
Image Description | Tweets by the police department of Munich.
Image Tags | Twitter
Ein Hashtag allein ist kein Zeichen für Mitgefühl
(A Hashtag is not a sign of empathy)
Newspaper | Die Zeit
Date | 24.12.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | emojis, Facebook
Summary | The recent terrorist attacks at a christmas market in Berlin have prompted a flood of empathetic social media postings. It is questionable how empathetic people really are when they showcase their solidarity on social media, say psychologists. They may just be submitting to peer pressure and conforming to what appears to be the popular, appropriate reaction - namely posting on social media.
Image Description | Getty image of a solidarity gathering with a woman holding a heart sign.
Image Tags | female(s)
Hey, du Mensch!
(Hey, you human! )
Newspaper | Die Zeit
Date | 15.4.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook, texting
Summary | Facebook has recently followed the footsteps of other large companies and implemented a chatbot in its messenger. Chatbots as conversational user interfaces are increasingly popular because smartphone users are reported to grow tired of having to download so many different apps. By enriching a social media service such as Facebook with a chatbot, users can enquire about things (e.g the weather) without changing platforms and using a mode that is familiar and comfortable for users: casual texting. The article however criticizes that chatbot technology is not very advanced and that it does not resemble human interaction yet.
Image Description | Photograph of a man texting in front of the Facebook Messenger logo, and screenshot of a Messenger chat.
Image Tags | Facebook, logo, male(s), smartphone, text
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