Number of Posts: 10
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Die Welt mit jungen Augen sehen
(See the world with young eyes)
Newspaper | Tages-Anzeiger
Date | 5.8.2017
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | smartphone, threat, youth
Summary | More and more fiction is not targeted at one age group in particular. It is debatable whether that means that the youth today is smarter than ever of whether our currents population consists various generations of eternal teenagers. Novels about young people have always embodies the hope for the future as well as anxieties about current developments like the question, what will happen to our society when smartphones replace all social contacts?
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Staatsmacht trifft Generation Youtube
(The government meets generation Youtube)
Newspaper | Tages-Anzeiger
Date | 24.5.2017
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | politics, youth, YouTube
Summary | Russian parliamentarians have invited YouTuber Sasha Spilberg to speak about youth politics. After many corruption scandals, Russian politicians struggle to secure young voters' support. This is why they invited an online influencer - Spilberg has 5 mio subscribers on YouTube.
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Die Putzfrau ist schuld
(It's the cleaning lady's fault)
Newspaper | Tages-Anzeiger
Date | 15.2.2016
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | texting, youth
Summary | The visitors of the carneval in Basel carry around lanterns on which they traditionally write political statements which are significant to them. One observer remarks that those political messages on the lanterns have become shorter in the past years, especially with youths. They resemble texting language.
Image Description | Image of the interviewee.
Image Tags | male(s)
Rauchstopp via Smartphone
(Stop smoking via smartphone)
Newspaper | Tages-Anzeiger
Date | 14.10.2016
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | addiction, game, politics, smartphone, youth
Summary | The canton of Zürich has alotted some funds to go towards smoking prevention. Prevention organizations who try to stop youth and young adults between the ages of 12-25 from smoking cigarettes are sure that the brochures of the past decades are useless today. The digital natives need to be reached on their online channels via smartphone. Simple informative texts also won't do: the teens of today need quizzes, videos, images, etc.
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Der Dreh ins Glück
(The spin into happiness)
Newspaper | Tages-Anzeiger
Date | 16.4.2017
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | emojis, youth
Summary | Analog technologies become more and more trendy among digital natives. Vinyl album sales have increased and e-book sales are steadily decreasing. People, especially young people for whom the immaculacy of new technologies is normal, yearn towards old technologies that show the signs of usage. Even Coop has caught on and is giving away little plastic emoji figurines.
Image Description | Getty image of a vinyl album.
Dem digitalen Lachen auf der Spur
(On the tracks of the digital laugh)
Newspaper | Tages-Anzeiger
Date | 19.8.2015
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | Facebook, gender, youth
Summary | The article reports about another article in the The New Yorker by Sarah Larson who did a quantitative study about how Americans convey laughter in their digital communication. They collected data from Facebook comment sections and analyzed them. Different ways to communicate laughter online co-occur with different demographics: younger people and women use more emojis to indicate laughter and men and older people do this more verbally by writing “haha” or similar verbal tokens
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Ist Kindsein gefährlicher geworden?
(Has being a child become more dangerous?)
Newspaper | Tages-Anzeiger
Date | 29.7.2014
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | childhood, smartphone, threat, youth
Summary | Thanks to the fact that most teenagers and even children own a smartphone, parents depend more heavily on the constant availability of their children. Nowadays, parents are worried when they can’t reach their children for an hour whereas previous generations just had to trust their sons and daughters. Psychologists claim that this lack of independence causes a late development of emotional maturity in today’s generation.
Image Description | Photograph of a woman on her phone, at the beach, taken from behind.
Image Tags | female(s), smartphone
Jetzt ist es da, nun ist es weg
(Now it is here, now it is gone)
Newspaper | Tages-Anzeiger
Date | 4.5.2016
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | Snapchat, social media, youth
Summary | 59% of 14 to 19-year olds use Snapchat (not specified whether in US/Switzerland/world-wide) while only 6% watch television daily. Snapchat is quickly catching up with Facebook in the amount of content created by users. While Snapchat has become famous for its function to send images with captions and drawings that self-destruct after a few seconds, many new formats are now available on Snapchat: users can create collage-like “Stories” of their recent snaps that stay on the platform for 24 hours. Corporations create high-quality digital content that they distribute through Snapchat’s ‘”Discover” function, and journalists document events in real time through “Live-Stories”.
Image Description | Video (interview) of Snapchat users, and series of screenshots of snaps.
Image Tags | female(s), male(s), Snapchat
Antiquiert chatten
(An antiquated chat)
Newspaper | Tages-Anzeiger
Date | 11.11.2015
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | emojis, school, WhatsApp, youth
Summary | Two Swiss high school students adapted the antique myth of Aeneas and Dido into a WhatsApp chat. A school assignment for their Latin class asked students to adapt ancient stories into other media. The two students reinterpreted the storyline as a WhatsApp chat between Dido and Aeneas in Latin with a lot of dramatic language (e.g. indicate shouting with all capital letters or word length with letter repetitions, and communicate emotions with emojis).
Image Description | Screenshot of a WhatsApp chat in Latin with words, emojis, and images.
Image Tags | emojis, WhatsApp
Der Punk des neuen Jahrtausends
(The punk of the new millennium)
Newspaper | Tages-Anzeiger
Date | 5.1.2016
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | addiction, school, smartphone, youth
Summary | In the light of statistics saying that people who look at their smartphones more than 60 times a day are at risk of being addicted, teacher Claudia Senn consciously incorporates smartphone use in her class. She lets students research things on their smartphones in class and lets them listen to music while doing individual exercises in class. While she cannot fully control how students use their devices, she thinks it is important to learn about all the affordances of this new omnipresent technology.
Image Description | Photograph of a teenage girl taking a selfie while doing the hand-horns (rock-on sign).
Image Tags | female(s), selfie, smartphone
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