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Toujours plus accro aux smartphones
(More and more addicted to smartphones)
Newspaper | Le Matin
Date | 3.12.2014
Language | French
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | (mental) health, addiction, smartphone, technology-free, threat
Summary | We carry our smartphone everywhere: bed, bathroom, work, train etc., which can render people addicted. Corine Kibora (spokeswoman at Addiction Switzerland) claims that people can be addicted to social media, news applications, emails etc. When a smartphone disturbs someone's eating, sleeping, or work habits, there is a problem. There can be health issues (eyes tired, sleep disorders) and social issues (personal relations and communication). Kibora suggests setting a schedule; no smartphone during dinner for example.
Image Description | Photograph of a man lying in bed with his smartphone in his hand.
Image Tags | male(s), smartphone
La tentation de la déconnexion
(The temptation of being disconnected)
Newspaper | La Tribune de Genève
Date | 17.1.2015
Language | French
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | addiction, email, smartphone, threat
Summary | There is now a general feeling of overdose or "virtual burnout" with new media. This feeling touches both private and professional spaces. A professor a the University of Neuchatel condemns this phenomenon which can have bad consequences at work. Nowadays, even if we leave our office, our work does not stop; we can still receive emails and feel like we have to respond right away. Some companies have rules: for example, no email after 6 p.m. and during the weekend. This digital overdose also hinders our personal relations with people.
Image Description | Digital image with new media use statistics, and icons related to new media.
Image Tags | computer/laptop, smartphone
Cyberdépendance: quand le Web devient une maladie
(Cyberdependence: when the internet becomes an illnesss)
Newspaper | La Tribune de Genève
Date | 17.1.2015
Language | French
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | (mental) health, addiction, smartphone, threat
Summary | News media have been talking about cyberdependence for a few years. Is internet addiction a real thing? A doctor (chief of the "addiction" service at the HUG) claims that it is a pathology; patients have the same symptoms as alcoholics or drug addicts. Internet addicts are mostly young people, and they are addicted to a specific product (e.g. video games, social media, etc.). The dependence becomes a problem when it has an impact on family, friends, or work.
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Abus d'écrans, responsabilité de parents
(Screen abuse, parents' responsibility )
Newspaper | Le Temps
Date | 31.1.2015
Language | French
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | addiction, childhood, smartphone, technology-free, threat, youth
Summary | Parents keep complaining about the fact that their children are stuck to their digital devices. More and more households in Switzerland own several digital devices ("screens"), which has consequences on family relations. Indeed, screens hinder natural communication and create problems. Parents seem lost and don't know what to do. Some parents have specific rules: no phone during dinner, or no phone before going to school in the morning, or no more than 30 minutes a day. A psychiatrist claims that the main rule should be to always privilege people physically present around us, especially children.
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Des écoles banissent le portable des préaux
(Schools prohibit cell phones on their playgrounds)
Newspaper | 20 minutes
Date | 12.9.2016
Language | French
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | school, smartphone, technology-free, threat, youth
Summary | Several schools in Switzerland have prohibited the use of smartphones during recess. Students do not learn as well as before, and interactions in the classrooms are not as good. Other people don't agree with this new rule. Schools need to accept the fact that everyone owns a smartphone nowadays. People communicate, which is a huge advantage of smartphones. Also, students should be able to be "free" during recess. They might want to be alone, and this is okay. Finally, a school principal thinks that prohibiting smartphones during recess is better for students; smartphones hinder the development of intercommunication.
Image Description | Photograph of a group of young male teenagers smiling and looking at their smartphones.
Image Tags | male(s), smartphone
Schreiben statt streicheln: Die neue kalte Liebesordnung
(Writing instead of stroking: The new cold order of love)
Newspaper | Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ)
Date | 20.6.2014
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | Facebook, smartphone, threat, WhatsApp, youth
Summary | Youth nowadays do not get to know their love interests face-to-face but rather through digital channels. A typical digital encounter would be a Facebook friend request, message exchanges and possibly the exchange of seductive images. Now intimacy means something different; people open up to each other in letter form rather than with actual physical contact. Cultural pessimists fear that while it is convenient that all of our interactions can be done online, this convenience may turn into a huge problem because people could virtually stay at home all the time and become lonely.
Image Description | Photograph in back and white of a couple (male and female), sleeping entwined.
Image Tags | female(s), male(s)
Digitale Entrückung
(Digital rapture)
Newspaper | Tages-Anzeiger
Date | 21.1.2014
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | smartphone, threat
Summary | During the industrial revolution, human desensitization and displacement from the tangible world was reflected in the arts. The arts have not begun to work through the social impacts of the digital revolution. They can only be more severe than the social changes sparked from the industrial revolution – the only tangible thing in our day-to-day lives remains the touch-screen. People are removed from their physical surroundings and keep getting into accidents because they are too focused on their phones. The need to take a selfie disrupts valuable experiences just to increase one’s online value.
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Teenager: Vom Handy um den Schlaf gebracht
(Teenagers: Kept from sleeping because of cell phone)
Newspaper | Beobachter
Date | 29.5.2014
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | childhood, smartphone, threat, youth
Summary | Smartphones or other screens should not be part of the going to sleep routine because the light emitted by screens hinders the sleeping process. Action films and games excite children too much, which prevents them from sleeping well. Smartphones should not be in the bedroom at night because they disrupt sleep.
Image Description | Photograph of a teenage girl using her smarphone in bed.
Image Tags | female(s), smartphone
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
Jugend "Meine Jungs sind so passiv"
(Youth "My boys are so passive")
Newspaper | Beobachter
Date | 22.8.2014
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | childhood, smartphone, threat, youth
Summary | A mother is worried that her sons are too passive, always hanging around with their smartphones instead of getting active in sports clubs or other social clubs. Experts advise parents not to worry as long as children sleep enough, keep their grades up in school, and keep a few social contacts. The younger generation lives in a different world of endless possibilities and of the fear of committing to one and failing.
Image Description | Photograph of two young boys playing on a tablet. Photograph of two young boys playing on a tablet.
Image Tags | male(s), tablet
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