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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
Die iPad-Kindheit vs. Baumhaus
(The iPad-childhood vs. tree house)
Newspaper | St. Galler Tagblatt
Date | 3.11.2015
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | childhood, texting, youth
Summary | Children today grow up very differently than one or two decades ago. Many children are entertained on digital playgrounds: games on tablets or smartphones. For youth today it is no longer extraordinary to receive 200 messages from 30 group chats every day.
Image Description | Photograph of a yellow notepad with a white pen on top of it.
Mädchen fotografieren, Knaben gamen
(Girls take photographs, boys play games)
Newspaper | St. Galler Tagblatt
Date | 11.2.2015
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | research/study, smartphone, youth
Summary | A study repeated biannually by the Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften (ZHAW) collects data on teenagers‘ use of old and new media. Close to 100% of teenagers own a phone, the vast majority a smartphone, and most of them use it daily. The data shows that most girls are more interested in listening to music and taking photographs while most boys care more about playing games and watching videos.
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40 Tage ohne Honig im Tee
(40 days without tea with honey)
Newspaper | St. Galler Tagblatt
Date | 14.2.2015
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | addiction, Facebook, WhatsApp
Summary | Catholic and Protestant churches of the St. Gallen area are advertising lent season and trying to get people to give up something they value for 40 days. The blue cross also urges people to give up addicting habits for 40 days. Next to alcohol, cigarettes, meat, and sweets, social networks such as Facebook or WhatsApp seem to be popular addicting habits to give up for lent.
Image Description | Digital image of the number 40 in the background, and a burger in the foreground.
WhatsAppitis
(WhatsAppitis)
Newspaper | Appenzeller Zeitung
Date | 15.4.2015
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | (mental) health, texting, WhatsApp
Summary | A myriad of new illnesses named after new technologies are reported in the media and in scientific journals. WhatsAppitis, for instance, is the tendinitis of the thumb. There is also the so-called text-neck and many other more or less serious neologisms like that.
Image Description | Photograph of the author Peter Abegglen.
Image Tags | male(s)
Schweizer immer länger online
(The Swiss are spending more and more time online)
Newspaper | St. Galler Tagblatt
Date | 16.12.2015
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | research/study, WhatsApp
Summary | The University of Zurich has collected data on Swiss citizens internet usage. The article lists many statistics stemming from this broad data collection such as the fact that Swiss people spend 22 hours a week online on average which is twice as much as in 2011. Further, only 7% of Swiss citizens do not have internet access; most of them have a lower income or are unemployed. The most popular categories of googling and emailing are joined by the activity of chatting which has dramatically increased since the advent of WhatsApp.
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L'usage des mots
(The use of words)
Newspaper | Le Temps
Date | 13.2.2015
Language | French
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | texting, threat, word/writing
Summary | People tend to misuse certain words in order to be politically correct, but this is not necessarily a good thing. For example, saying “Daech” instead of “Islamic state” leads to a denial of any religious affiliation –in this case: Islam. People also intentionally misuse certain words, which is the consequence of a shrunken vocabulary imbued with text message features. As a result, emotions and thoughts are not as rich.
Image Description | N/A
Image Tags | female(s)
La bataille de l'orthographe
(The spelling battle)
Newspaper | PME Magazine
Date | 30.9.2015
Language | French
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | language threat, marketing, spelling, texting
Summary | Spelling mistakes are everywhere around us. One of the reasons that can explain the invasion of spelling mistakes is the global usage of new technologies: now people write more. The phenomenon touches every social and professional classes. This leads to problems in the work space; people write their emails or resumes with a lot of mistakes. As a result, some companies now offer spelling classes to their employees in France and in Switzerland.
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Marre de ces émoticônes qui remplacent nos emotions
(Fed up with those emoticons that replace our emotions)
Newspaper | Le Matin
Date | 24.4.2015
Language | French
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | emojis, threat
Summary | The emoji phenomenon is global and growing very fast. Those smiley faces are everywhere and have invaded our lives. They are not just used to express our emotions alone, they also replace them. Yes, emojis are young and fun, but they are also a way to “disempower” human relationships and to be emotionally correct.
Image Description | Photograph in black and white of the author of the article.
Image Tags | male(s)
Le monde se parle désormais en émojis
(The world now speaks emoji)
Newspaper | Le Matin
Date | 3.5.2015
Language | French
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | emojis, youth
Summary | The use of emojis is a global phenomenon; everyone uses them to express actions and emotions. There was a time when we only had words to exchange; now we also have emojis. The “heart emoji” was the “word” used the most on the Internet during the year. Emojis were first mostly used by young people, but now everyone uses them. They also take several forms and portray the world’s diversity.
Image Description | Digital image of emojis: tears of joy emoji, heart-shapes eyes emoji, face throwing a kiss emoji, and "diversity" emojis
Image Tags | emojis
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