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Es postet, also bin ich
(It posts so I am)
Newspaper | Die Zeit
Date | 19.7.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | brain, emojis, language threat, selfie, social media
Summary | In his new book called "Facebook generation", Roberto Simanowski positions himself between the cultural pessimists and the digital euphorics. He does fear for our language competence and tied to it our memory. We tend to posts selfies and emojis rather than put our feelings into words. We tend to post a link to a song, a video, or an article rather than paraphrase that information make our point in an original sentence. This leads to the degeneration of our language ability and that inability to process information in our own words prevents the creation of memories. Instead we leave a huge digital data trail online.
Image Description | Woman's hands holding a smartphone while using a laptop.
Image Tags | computer/laptop, female(s), hand(s), smartphone
Geschichten eines Bilderstürmers
(Stories of an image stormer)
Newspaper | Die Zeit
Date | 21.4.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | Facebook, Instagram, selfie
Summary | Instagram creator Kevin Systrom has created the most popular image-sharing social media platform world-wide. In Systrom's vision, Instagram could partly play the role that traditional news media pla today. To report of significant events as they are enfolding. Already, Instagram posts are printed in newspapers if no reporter was present on site. Facebook has bought the company for one billion dollars.
Image Description | Instagram creator Kevin Systrom with smartphones taking pictures of him.
Image Tags | Instagram, male(s), smartphone
Figures libres. Naissance de la philoselfie
(Freestyle. Birth of philoselfie)
Newspaper | Le Monde
Date | 5.5.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | selfie, virtual reality
Summary | The word "selfie" was created in 2002. Then it was used to designate a picture of oneself taken with a smartphone. In 2013, "selfie" was chosen as word of the year. Elsa Godard explores in her book "Je selfie donc je suis" how this recent digital activity expresses different relationships: with oneself, others, time, space, language, desire. She also tries to understand the relationship between real and virtual.
Image Description | Photograph of a smartphone on a selfie stick.
Image Tags | selfie stick, smartphone
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