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En 10 ans l'iPhone a révolutionné nos vies
(In 10 years, the iPhone revolutionized our lives)
Newspaper | 24 heures
Date | 13.9.2017
Language | French
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | smartphone, texting
Summary | 10 years ago, we couldn't find an address on a online map, buy products online, or take a picture. Today, we can do so many things just with once device, which definitely changed our habits. The smartphone is like a digital swiss knife that we can bring with us anywhere. Our communicative habits have also been changed with the introduction of messaging apps such as WhatsApp. Finally, the fact that anyone can take pictures with a phone has made photography a more amateurish practice.
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Du SMS au smartphone, vingt ans à se réinventer
(From SMS to smartphone, twenty years to reinvent oneself)
Newspaper | Les Echos
Date | 25.1.2017
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | smartphone, texting
Summary | The app Shazam was created in 1990, but at that time iTunes and iPhone did not exist. At first, people had to call a number and play the song to an answering machine and would receive the name of the song via text message.
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Les mamans 2.0 ont tous les trucs pour garder leurs enfants à l'oeil
(Moms 2.0 have all the tricks to keep an eye on their kids)
Newspaper | Le Matin Dimanche
Date | 11.5.2014
Language | French
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | childhood, smartphone, technology-free, texting, threat, youth
Summary | New technologies are changing family relations. Mothers think that giving their kids a phone will allow them to always keep in touch with them. However, the sooner children get a phone, the faster they grow apart from their parents. New technologies also change relations of authority in a family. Parents should not prohibit the use of screens; they should always talk to their kids about new media use. Parents who are not interested in new technologies are making a mistake; they are missing occasions to communicate with their kids and their authority is compromised.
Image Description | Illustration of a mother reading a "Happy Mother's day" text and being nostalgic of old times.
Image Tags | female(s), smartphone, text
Le langage sms, éternel accusé de tous les maux des mots
(Text message language, always blamed for the ills of the words)
Newspaper | La Tribune de Genève
Date | 30.8.2014
Language | French
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | language threat, research/study, school, smartphone, texting, youth
Summary | Although we can now send unlimited texts on our smartphones using the spellcheck feature, text message language is still widely used, especially among the younger generation. Should we be worried about that? Researchers claim that we shouldn’t be worried; texting does not threaten the French language. According to a study, young students can make the difference between a text message and a written school assignment; they can adapt their language according to the medium. Although no study has demonstrated that text messages have any deleterious effect on spelling skills, more research is needed.
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