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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
Es hat wieder gepiepst
(It beeped again)
Newspaper | Tages-Anzeiger
Date | 22.7.2016
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | smartphone, threat
Summary | Our constant availability via smartphone makes us less aware of our physical surroundings. The fact that personal messages as well as news reach us at all times, whether we are ready for them or not, makes our perception of the world even more influenced push notifications. Despite the fact that we are now living in the safest of times, historically speaking, we feel more threatened because of countless graphic reports of terrorist attacks.
Image Description | Photograph in black and white of the author of the article.
Image Tags | male(s)
Das Tempo der Übermittlung heizt die Gefühle an
(The pace of transmissions heats up feelings)
Newspaper | Tages-Anzeiger
Date | 30.8.2014
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | addiction, smartphone, texting, threat
Summary | Couples therapist Klaus Heer noticed the huge impact cell phones have on relationships. They are omnipresent: at the dinner table as well as in bed. Smartphones can cause distance and distrust but they can also reignite a romantic flame with a simple erotic or just loving text message. In the case of a fight, stopping all communication hurts even more because everyone is theoretically available all the time.
Image Description | Illustration of a naked woman whose reflection can be seen on three smartphones.
Image Tags | female(s), smartphone
Eine literarische Revolution ;-)
(A literary revolution ;-))
Newspaper | Tages-Anzeiger
Date | 10.2.2015
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | emojis, language threat, translation
Summary | Originating in the late 1990s in Japan, emojis have gained huge popularity worldwide. Some say they are destroying our language, others use emojis for poetic endeavors. Fred Benenson has for instance re-written the classic story of Moby Dick using emojis. The project was crowd funded and is called “Emoji Dick”. Apple has recently put into action an online petition calling for more ethnic diversity among emojis.
Image Description | Digital image representing 180 different emojis.
Image Tags | emojis
Sags doch per Emoji
(Say it with emojis)
Newspaper | Tages-Anzeiger
Date | 21.3.2015
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | emojis, misunderstanding
Summary | Adullts also use emojis. Emojis are cutesy little colorful symbols depicting simplified facial expressions, animals, or objects. Thematic packages of moving emojis can be bought. Emojis can be used to adorn messages or to replace written text altogether. Because their meanings are multivalent, they can easily be misunderstood, which results in awkwardness.
Image Description | Photograph of the author of the article.
Image Tags | female(s)
Sklaven des Smartphones
(Slaves to smartphones)
Newspaper | Tages-Anzeiger
Date | 5.3.2015
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | school, smartphone, threat
Summary | Japan and South Korea – both highly digitized nations – experience the negative effects of omnipresent internet access. The article infers that conversations have become a rarity because smartphones and the need to update social media profiles distract people. A South Korean literature scholar states that students hardly read books anymore; therefore, government incentives for reading have been established. The article even predicts a return to analphebetization in these nations.
Image Description | Photograph of a young man's face half-hidden by his iPhone.
Image Tags | male(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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