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Schreiben: Die Handschrift verkümmert
(Writing: Handwriting is hampered)
Newspaper | Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ)
Date | 1.3.2015
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | language threat, research/study, texting, word/writing
Summary | We are living in an age writing renaissance; no generation before us has written this profusely. We are always texting someone or updating our social media statuses and yet, ironically, we are losing a staple of writing culture: our handwriting. Researchers are debating whether this is a problem or not, but the fact is that many neuroscientific studies show that humans learn better while writing by hand rather than typing. The abbreviated, informal, emoticon-filled writing style of WhatsApp and co. may be corrupting writing culture at large.
Image Description | Photograph of a young child (girl) typing on a laptop.
Image Tags | computer/laptop, female(s)
Mädchen fotografieren, Knaben gamen
(Girls take photographs, boys play games)
Newspaper | St. Galler Tagblatt
Date | 11.2.2015
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | research/study, smartphone, youth
Summary | A study repeated biannually by the Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften (ZHAW) collects data on teenagers‘ use of old and new media. Close to 100% of teenagers own a phone, the vast majority a smartphone, and most of them use it daily. The data shows that most girls are more interested in listening to music and taking photographs while most boys care more about playing games and watching videos.
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Schweizer immer länger online
(The Swiss are spending more and more time online)
Newspaper | St. Galler Tagblatt
Date | 16.12.2015
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | research/study, WhatsApp
Summary | The University of Zurich has collected data on Swiss citizens internet usage. The article lists many statistics stemming from this broad data collection such as the fact that Swiss people spend 22 hours a week online on average which is twice as much as in 2011. Further, only 7% of Swiss citizens do not have internet access; most of them have a lower income or are unemployed. The most popular categories of googling and emailing are joined by the activity of chatting which has dramatically increased since the advent of WhatsApp.
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