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Der schleichende Niedergang der SMS
(The creeping descent of text messages)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 2.2.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | abbreviations, texting, WhatsApp
Summary | Texting has revolutionized our mobile communication in teh 1990s. Text messages have created a culture of abbreviations that we have kept going until today. The text message is however slowly going extinct. WhatsApp and other similar instant messaging apps are taking over because they do not charge per message. They do not charge at all - the only thing needed is a device with internet connection.
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Kommunikation ist alles
(Communication is everything)
Newspaper | Frankfurter Neue Presse
Date | 4.2.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | abbreviations, childhood, language threat, smartphone
Summary | Many young children already have smartphones. It is problematic if youths spend too much time on new media - they don't learn how to interact face-to-face so that they whip out the phone even if they are hanging out with a friend. They increasingly write in abbreviations which makes them do badly in school. Parents are part of the problem, because they demand that their children be available on the smartphone at all times. It is important to give children positive offline experiences.
Image Description | Image of a man holding a cell phone and holding his thumb up.
Image Tags | cell phone, hand(s), male(s)
So unterschiedlich kann man Liebe per SMS gestehen
(There are many ways to confess one's love via text message)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 12.10.2015
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | abbreviations, emojis, punctuation, texting
Summary | There is a lot of ways in which one can write "I love you" in a text message and all of them mean something slightly different. Punctiation can transform the whole tone of the statement. Abbreviation of the three infamous words can make it less serious - which can be a good or a bad thing depending on context. Emojis are complicated and ambiguous.
Image Description | Photograph of heart ballons with letters flying into the sky.
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