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Einfach mal loslaufen
(Just start walking)
Newspaper | Tages-Anzeiger
Date | 16.2.2017
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | technology-free, threat
Summary | Travelling has been made easier by the digitalization - no doubt. But the sheer mass of information available to us has made us control freaks when it comes to traveling. We can research all the coolest hidden spots before we go someplace and then we end up hurrying from one place to another. Now travel guides are coming out that teach people how to give in to serendipity but planned serendipity kind of defeats the purpose.
Image Description | Getty image of a Brooklyn street corner with a bunch of people and a dog.
Image Tags | female(s), male(s)
Es flitzt der Rollstuhl
(The bolting wheelchair )
Newspaper | Tages-Anzeiger
Date | 16.1.2017
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | (mental) health, diversity, emojis
Summary | A German organization for the inclusion of people with disabilities into public life is offering a set of Inklumojis: emojis that depict people with disabilities. These include a man in a wheelchair with fire shooting out of the back suggesting speed, athletes with leg prosthetics, a romantic couple holding hands, one of them with a prosthetic arm, and many more. Emojis can normalize people with disabilities much easier than big advertising campaigns which is why they will attempt to have their emojis included by the Unicode Consortium.
Image Description | Emojis of people with diabilities.
Image Tags | emojis, female(s), male(s)
«Le mobile est le meilleur ami des Milléniums»
("Mobile phone is Millennials' best friend")
Newspaper | 24 heures
Date | 16.3.2017
Language | French
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | addiction, pornography, smartphone, youth
Summary | Céline Cabourg and Boris Manenti answer some questions related to Millennials and their digital world. They say that today, the gap between teenagers and adults is getting more important. For instance, one teenager told Manenti that adults have different Facebook profiles; they only post pictures of their family and their vacation. In sum, they don't use social media the same way as young people. Moreover, teenagers view their smartphone as their best friend and not as a tool. What about "You Porn Generation"? It is true that children as young as 10 can have access to porn. Parents have an important role to play in their relationship with their children, and they should have open discussions with them.
Image Description | Photograph of three teenagers (one girl and two boys) on their smartphones
Image Tags | female(s), male(s), smartphone
Schweizer Firmen setzen auf Bots
(Swiss firms put their money on bots)
Newspaper | Tages-Anzeiger
Date | 27.12.2016
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, Facebook, privacy
Summary | Many companies in Switzerland are testing out chatbots to replace their telephone customer service. Many company chatbots can be contacted via the Facebook messenger. They are quite useful because they can organize tasks according to content and delegate them to the appropriate departments or help the customers themselves. Experts demand full transparency about what happens to customer data created in chatbot uses.
Image Description | Getty image of a woman's torso holding a smartphone, some chatbot chat screenshots and graphs.
Image Tags | female(s), hand(s), smartphone, text
Zeit der Handy-Verbote geht zu Ende
(The time of cell phone bans is over)
Newspaper | Der Bund
Date | 8.3.2017
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | childhood, digitized education, school
Summary | Bernese city schools want to purchase one laptop or tablet for each student. The new cantonal curriculum wants new technologies to be integrated in class work projects. It is important that students learn to work with new technologies from an early age because they are becoming increasingly important. The only problem is that such a renewal would be hugely expensive.
Image Description | Keystone image of two pairs of students using one laptop each.
Image Tags | computer/laptop, female(s), male(s)
Jungbürger verzweifelt gesucht
(Young citizen seeked out desperately)
Newspaper | Tagblatt (Thurgau)
Date | 15.1.2016
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | WhatsApp, youth
Summary | Swiss towns traditionally invite all of their citizens who turn 18 to a young citizens’ celebration to initiate them into the life of their town, meet the town council, find out about their right, and to mingle with fellow young citizens during some fun activities. Less and less youths however responded to such invites and so the town of Sirnach decided to send their invites via text message and WhatsApp. This is meant to create a group dynamic so that young citizens would animate fellow young citizens to attend the celebration.
Image Description | Photograph of a group of teenagers playing curling.
Image Tags | female(s), male(s)
Muttis Welt
(Mommy’s world)
Newspaper | Sonntagszeitung
Date | 28.8.2016
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | emojis, social media
Summary | Three women from Boston developed an app with 250 new emojis all depicting various aspects of parenthood and especially motherhood. The emojis address taboo topics of childcare and pregnancy such as being in labor, baby’s spit-up, and milk-pumping. Many parents however overshare these personal experiences on social media; a phenomenon previously named ‘sharenting’.
Image Description | Digital image representing three pregnant women emojis.
Image Tags | emojis, female(s)
Das Ende der Telefonbuchse naht
(The end of the telephone socket is approaching)
Newspaper | Tages-Anzeiger
Date | 7.2.2014
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | texting, WhatsApp
Summary | Swisscom is changing the technology behind landline phone calls to the new VoIP (Voice over IP/Internet) technique, and because Swisscom has lost a lot of business to internet based instant messaging app WhatsApp, they are launching a messaging service called iO, which enables Swisscom clients to text other Swisscom clients for free and unlimited.
Image Description | Photograph in black and white of a woman using a rotary dial phone.
Image Tags | female(s)
Government secretary tweets nude ‘selfies’
Newspaper | The Local
Date | 7.8.2014
Language | English
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | pornography, selfie, sexting
Summary | A Bernese office employee had been tweeting nude images from her office to her 11'000 followers. She works for the Swiss government, whose employment policies ask employees to only post thing on social media that they would be comfortable sharing with their co-workers and supervisors as well and to keep the Swiss government's reputation in mind even when they are off the clock. The secretary in question, who has participated in several hundred amateur porn films as is now confirmed, claims that her private life does not interfere with her professional life in any way and that they should be kept seperate. It is unclear how her employers will handle the situation.
Image Description | Getty image of a woman taking a selfie.
Image Tags | female(s), hand(s), selfie, smartphone
La cure de Selena Gomez: décrocher du smartphone
(Selena Gomez's therapy: hanging up her smartphone)
Newspaper | 20 minutes
Date | 2.12.2016
Language | French
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | (mental) health, addiction, smartphone, youth
Summary | Selena Gomez has been suffering from depression. She got off her smartphone for 90 days and felt much better. The experience was relaxing and invigorating. Even though Selena Gomez is trying to limit her time online, she is still very popular on Instagram.
Image Description | Photograph of Selena Gomez and screenshot of one of her Instagram posts.
Image Tags | female(s), Instagram
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