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Quand le smartphone fait de l'ombre au bébé
(When smartphones eclipse babies)
Newspaper | La Tribune de Genève
Date | 13.6.2017
Language | French
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | (mental) health, addiction, childhood, smartphone, technology-free, threat
Summary | More and more parents take a lot of pictures of their newborn before holding him/her for the first time. As a result, a hospital in the Swiss German part of Switzerland decided to impose a new rule: no screen during mother-baby nap. The problem especially affects the younger generation (under 30). Parents seem to pay more attention to their smartphone, which is alarming. For instance, mothers post pictures of themselves in labor. There are no special rules in Geneva, but doctors and midwives are thinking about alternatives. An excessive use of smartphones can also have a negative impact on children's development.
Image Description | Photograph of a hand taking a picture of a newborn with a smartphone
Image Tags | hand(s), smartphone
Quand l'usage du smartphone risque de virer à l'addiction
(When the use of smartphone can lead to addiction)
Newspaper | Les Echos
Date | 8.2.2017
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | (mental) health, addiction, smartphone, technology-free, threat
Summary | A third of young people between 18 and 24 claim that they look at their phone more than 50 times a day. People are more and more addicted to their smartphone, and we should be worried about that. The "Days without smartphones" were created 16 years ago because of this new trend. 41% of French people state that they look at their smartphone in the middle of the night, and 81% say that they use their smartphone while having a meal with friends or family. People are anxious if they don't have their phone. We talk about nomophobia to characterize this new health problem.
Image Description | Photograph of three young people looking at their phone and smiling
Image Tags | female(s), male(s), smartphone
Et si nous repensions la place que prend le smartphone dans notre quotidien?
(What if we rethink about the role of smartphones in our daily life?)
Newspaper | Le Figaro
Date | 5.2.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | privacy, smartphone, technology-free, threat
Summary | The 16th edition of "Days without smartphones" will be held this weekend. According to Phil Marso, smartphones can be dangerous (e.g. privacy issues, car accidents). Marso wants to show people that smartphones are convenient but that we can live without them.
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Plus d'humain et de culture dès le plus jeune âge
(More people and culture from an early age)
Newspaper | Le Monde
Date | 5.1.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | (mental) health, addiction, childhood, technology-free, threat
Summary | As soon as a baby is born, he/she needs to be stimulated. Adults should talk to babies, play with them, look at them, and reassure them. However, more and more digital devices are starting to replace human presence. Adults don't hesitate to give their toddlers a tablet or a smartphone. This new trend can have a serious impact on children's cognitive development and language development.
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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)
43 plus E-Mail plus 58 plus SMS gleich Problem statt Lösung
(43 plus email plus 58 plus text message equals problem instead of solution)
Newspaper | Bilanz
Date | 27.1.2017
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | brain, email, smartphone, technology-free, threat
Summary | Professionals nowadays frequently abstain from checking their emails. Automatic email notifications stating that the desired person is unavailable for a few weeks due to email abstinence have become more frequent. This is unsurprising because the interruptions caused by emails and other notifications take up a lot of our cognitive capacity so that we become less efficient in our work. We check our smartphones for new notifications 85 times a day on average.
Image Description | N/A
Sexting: A language our children must never learn
Newspaper | Daily Telegraph
Date | 20.4.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | abbreviations, childhood, sexting, technology-free, threat, youth
Summary | Youths are using abbreviations to keep their parents out of the loop like LMIRL (let's meet in real life). The police have published a list of these to help parents monitor their children. It is sad that children and teenagers have such low self-esteem that they do anything to receive validation from their digital peers. This is not just youth culture or rap music's fault but rather the parent's fault. They are always busy and spend too much time on their smartphone rather than gracing their children with face-to-face attention and smartphone-free activities.
Image Description | Getty image of a teenage boy smirking at a smartphone.
Image Tags | male(s), smartphone
Creating a Healthy Relationship With Technology
Newspaper | Huffington Post
Date | 8.11.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | (mental) health, addiction, smartphone, technology-free, threat
Summary | Psychological tests confirm that the mere presence of a smartphone, no matter who it belongs to or whether it is ringing, decreases one's level of empathy for others. In light of this sobering fact we must make an effort to develop a healthy relationship with our smartphones because meany of us are indeed somewhere on the addiction spectrum. The author has experimented with deleting all social media and e-mail apps off of her smartphone: though it is difficult at first, and also enlightening about one's level of addiction, this step has ultimately decluttered her mind and calendar. She still has a 24 hour response rate to emails, which is acceptable. She is now trying to implement technology-free meetings at her workplace.
Image Description | A 'deathtostock' (image bank) photograph of a smartphone on a table with decorations in the blurry background.
Please, don't silence your cellphones
Newspaper | Washington Post
Date | 16.4.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | smartphone, technology-free, threat
Summary | AMC's entertainment chief executive commented that they are considering letting moviegoers use their smartphones in AMC theaters. The reasoning behind this statement being that it is no longer possible to tell young adults today to put away their smartphones for two hours. This statement was met with a lot of public anger about smartphones entering even the sanctity of the cinema. AMC quickly rectified the statement saying that texting will not be allowed in their theaters in the foreseeable future.
Image Description | Illustration of a (abstracted, faceless) movie theater audience on top of a huge smartphone screen.
Image Tags | female(s), male(s), smartphone
How Silicon Valley's parents keep their children safe online
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 2.3.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | childhood, smartphone, social media, technology-free, threat
Summary | Silicon Valley's parents explain how they deal with their children's use of internet. Since parents cannot control everything or spy on their kids, they talk to them and teach them how to use the internet. Some parents have more restrictions; for example, no screens from Friday night to Saturday night. As a result, parents and children spend more time together and do fun activities. Other parents only let ther children go online with an adult's supervision. A psychologist claims that social media have a negative impact on children; they drive them away from family and school.
Image Description | Photograph of a female child sitting on her bed and looking at a tablet.
Image Tags | female(s), tablet
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