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Hilfe, Mama und Papa sind handysüchtig!
(Help, mom and dad are addicted to their cell phones!)
Newspaper | Sonntagszeitung
Date | 23.2.2014
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | addiction, childhood, smartphone, youth
Summary | When talking to teens who are often accused by the media of being obsessed with their smartphones, it becomes clear that their adult role models are just as preoccupied by the constant availability of the smartphone. Children and teenagers lament that they do not get their parents’ attention when there is a smartphone nearby.
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Ich verzichte auf Facebook, weil es sich schlecht anfühlt
(I'm giving up Facebook because it feels wrong)
Newspaper | Sonntagszeitung
Date | 11.10.2015
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | addiction, threat
Summary | Douglas Rushkoff, media theory professor at New York University, talks about social and political developments caused by the business of big data. Talking about instant messaging, he says that face-to-face communication suffers from the constant presence and availability of digital communication. The possibility of multi-tasking is tempting, but it is disruptive to personal encounters.
Image Description | Photograph of D. Rushkoff, standing with his arms crossed in front of a door.
Image Tags | male(s)
Der Mann zieht seine Nummer ab
(A man takes off his number)
Newspaper | Sonntagszeitung
Date | 14.8.2016
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | (mental) health, addiction, research/study, smartphone, technology-free
Summary | A 29-year old man has decided to live without a cell phone because it causes anxiety and is not as necessary as everybody thinks. Recent studies have shown that many smartphone users can effectively be labeled as addicts because they check their phones more than 60 times a day. This obsession, paired with the fact that push notifications effect the release of dopamine, confirm the claim that smartphones increase anxiety.
Image Description | Photograph of the 29-year old man, crouching.
Image Tags | male(s)
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