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How I Learned to Love Snapchat
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 22.5.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | Snapchat, social media, texting, threat
Summary | The texting revolution, as with other major and rapid technological advances, has inspired moral panic. People think that we are becoming less social. It might be true, but we should also look at the advantages of new technologies. For instance, texting has allowed a whole generation to be free from the "stricture" and "inconvenience" of phone calls. Snapchat is one the latest technological trends and it goes beyond words. It's the most well realized way of expressing meaning. With texting, people tried to find ways to approximate normal human conversations (e.g. typing awareness indicator, or read receipt), but they are almost as awkward as phone calls. The author of the article talks about voice memos and the fact that they are becoming more popular. She also talks about Snapchat and how different it is from other social networks; Snapchat is the place where you can be yourself.
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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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