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Das Vong zum Sonntag
(The vong for Sunday)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 27.8.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | anglicisms, language threat, social media, texting
Summary | The German internet and social media have produced a new language in the last two years: the "vong" language, its main feature being an attributive construction of "vong (noun) her" which roughly translates to and the English phrase (noun)-wise with "vong" replacing the "-wise". It is a language between English and German, uses numericals wherever possible as is known from texting language and is highly influenced by hip hop jargon. Now a German artist has translated the Bible into vong-language.
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Das Internet der letzten Dinge
(The Internet of the last things)
Newspaper | Die Zeit
Date | 26.6.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | social media, texting
Summary | We now leave much more behind than previous generations. We document large parts of our mundane and sometimes staged life online on various social media platforms. Most Young adults today have an average of six social media profiles. All those are very complicated to delete post-mortem.
Image Description | A Photocase Image of various Polaroid pictures.
Image Tags | female(s), male(s)
Logisches Pisa-Ergebnis
(Logical Pisa result)
Newspaper | Appenzeller Zeitung
Date | 15.12.2016
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | childhood, research/study, school, social media, texting, word/writing, youth
Summary | The Pisa study shows that Swiss students have decreasing writing and reading skills. This is not suprising considering the high percentage of foreign heritage children in Switzerland, the many national languages and distinct dialects, and the fact that children learn two foreign languages while still in primary school - let alone the dubious influence of new media, texting, social media, and so on.
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Junge schreiben - mehr als je zuvor
(Youths write - more than ever)
Newspaper | Appenzeller Zeitung
Date | 29.1.2016
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | code-switching, language threat, research/study, school, smartphone, social media, spelling, texting, word/writing, youth
Summary | There is a public hysteria about how youths are no longer capable of spelling correctly or writing appropriately and skillfully. All this is seen to be caused by new media such as smartphones. BUt young people today write far more than previous generations did: they post on social media and text every day. The only difference is that this writing culture is very informal and colloquial. Researchers however assume that one cannot simply state that this spoils their writing skills generally, most students are easily capable of code-switching from informal registers to a formal register appropriate for school.
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Chatten und mehr
(Chatting and more)
Newspaper | Luxemburger Wort
Date | 8.12.2016
Language | German
Country | Luxembourg
Topic Tags | social media, texting
Summary | A new messenger called "Wafer" was developed in Luxembourg by Italian engineers. It allows users to text all of their contacts, even if they have not installed the app. They can then just chat in the browser version. The app is very multimedial: one can send up to six different media in one message (text, drawings, images, videos, ...) and share messages from Wafer directly on social media.
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