Number of Posts: 24
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Auf nach Münschen
(To Munich)
Newspaper | Die Zeit
Date | 18.2.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, research/study, texting, translation
Summary | German car manufacturers are working on voice-operated artificial intelligence assistants in cars which can operate navigation systems, phonecalls, text messages, and music selection. Operating this technology verbally is the most safe option while driving. The voice recognition is now so advanced thanks to lots of research and data collection that it can even understand voice commands in regional dialects.
Image Description | Hand operating a navigation system in a car.
Image Tags | hand(s)
Der schleichende Niedergang der SMS
(The creeping descent of text messages)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 2.2.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | abbreviations, texting, WhatsApp
Summary | Texting has revolutionized our mobile communication in teh 1990s. Text messages have created a culture of abbreviations that we have kept going until today. The text message is however slowly going extinct. WhatsApp and other similar instant messaging apps are taking over because they do not charge per message. They do not charge at all - the only thing needed is a device with internet connection.
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Das neue iMessage strapaziert die Nerven
(The new iMessage gets on my nerves)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 15.9.2016
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | emojis, language threat, texting, word/writing
Summary | The updated iMessage has tons of new functions. It suggests appropriate emojis to replace words of a message, it now has sticker packages like the Facebook Messenger and allows for text messages to be animated. Users can also send short handwritten Messages - that it if they can still write by hand. All of the updates combined make for a much more obnoxious iMessage service.
Image Description | Images of iPhones using iMessage.
Image Tags | smartphone
Das Schweigen der Emojis
(The Silence of Emojis)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 12.8.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | email, emojis, misunderstanding, texting
Summary | Our written and computer-mediated communication is requiring more and more non-textual signs. First the likes of this " :-) " came along and now text messages and emails have begun to look like someone spilled colorful candy all over them. Emojis also easily lead to misunderstandings, so the manicure emoji can be misinterpreted as a weird foot by people who are not in the know.
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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)
Mein Heim, mein Google
(My home, my Google)
Newspaper | Die Zeit
Date | 19.5.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Google, marketing, privacy, texting
Summary | On Google's Innovation presentation, they have presented their new products. Everything is largely chatbot-based, they are coming out with a home assistant much like Amazon's Echo and some new Messaging apps through which businesses can offer in-app services, for instance restaurant reservations. The Messaging apps are also supposed to be able to suggest appropriate responses to content. Privacy is also an important topic, all these innovations are designed with maximum security in mind.
Image Description | Getty Images of Google representatives presenting innovations.
Image Tags | male(s)
"Ich bin dein Sohn!"
("I am your son!")
Newspaper | Die Zeit
Date | 6.4.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | childhood, emojis, texting, YouTube
Summary | It is interesting to watch children develop a texting personality. As they grow up with new media, they use them quite naturally. They easily incorporate emojis, use audio messages, or share YouTube videos. Texting humor is also learned quite automatically.
Image Description | Image of a boy holding a smartphone.
Image Tags | male(s), smartphone
Bild + Text = Kunst
(Image + text = art)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 30.3.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | emojis, GIFs, Snapchat, texting
Summary | The smartphone generation fears nothing more than bland text messages. Language has become more multimodal: the word of the year chosen by the Oxford English Dictionary is an emoji! The makers of the app Legend have recognized this and allow users to upload Images and edit them with text, color, filters, and animations - much like on Snapchat. The product can be sent on any platform as a video or GIF.
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Leserbriefe
(Letters to the editor)
Newspaper | Sonntagszeitung
Date | 18.12.2016
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | language threat, research/study, school, texting, Twitter, word/writing
Summary | The Pisa study results show that the Swiss language education concept has failed. The reading skills of Swiss students are very poor. More time is being dedicated to foreign languages than to the native language - are children now supposed to learn German from Tweets and text messages in Swiss German?
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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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