Number of Posts: 24
Posts 11 - 20
Taking a break from the news
Newspaper | Washington Post
Date | 13.6.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | smartphone, technology-free, texting, youth
Summary | The author describes his vacation in Europe and notices a table of four Dutch teenagers in a café just talking to each other face to face like people used to do in the United States. No one was holding a smartphone, checking their messages, texting, posting something on social media or similar.
Image Description | Lake with hourses and boats.
The Emoji Movie's' trip through a smartphone world lacks imagination
Newspaper | Los Angeles Times
Date | 28.7.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | emojis, smartphone, technology-free, word/writing
Summary | The new Emoji movie is like its main character: "meh". The story is unimaginative and pretty obvious. People should try to spend those 86 minutes outside, reading a book, or talking face-to-face to another person instead of watching this movie.
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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
Paulinas Englischlehrer
(Paulina's English teacher)
Newspaper | Die Zeit
Date | 6.7.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | childhood, digitized education, research/study, technology-free
Summary | Linguists are currently working on robots who can teach foreign languages to children. It is a new research field and it is being tested in several childcare institutions and kindergardens. The results show that children learn better when they are emotionally invested and that is the main advantage of a robot versus just a tablet.The robot is more humanoid and responds emotionally (with praise for correct answers for instance). Recent studies say that 70% of pre-schoolers user their parents' smartphones or tablets for more than 30 minutes a day when that should be the maximum screen time (including TV) a child has per day.
Image Description | A girl using the language learning robot.
Image Tags | female(s), school
9 Gründe, warum du dich auf den 30. freuen kannst
(9 reasons why you can look forward to your 30st)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 16.6.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | addiction, smartphone, technology-free
Summary | One of the reasons why becoming 30 years old right now is not so bad is that one is practically a digital native but remembers a time before omnipresent internet and digital devices. One knows how to use all things digital, i.e. "speaks the language of the zombies", but knows how to avoid becoming a zombie.
Image Description | Getty images of a woman blowing out candles, a pig farm, a medieval painting, a man with an alcoholic beverage, a crowd of people, two women taking a selfie, a woman sticking her head in a bush, as well as GIFs of a treadmill accident and a Star Wars meme.
Image Tags | female(s), gifs, male(s), selfie
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
Dieses Buch trotzt sogar Netflix
(This book even defies Netflix)
Newspaper | Tages-Anzeiger
Date | 30.3.2017
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | addiction, smartphone, social media, technology-free, TV
Summary | Carlos Ruiz Zafón's Barcelona tetralogy can compete with the endless entertainment of Netflix and smartphones. Books have had it hard as an entertainment medium in the age of endless social media threads and never-stopping, action-packed Netflix series. While Ruiz Zafón's books are not literary masterpieces, they succeed in captivating readers so that they do not even desire to check their smartphones for notifications for hours at a time!
Image Description | N/A
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.
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«La surexposition des jeunes enfants aux écrans est un enjeu majeur de santé publique»
("Overexposure of young children to screens is a major public health issue")
Newspaper | Le Monde
Date | 31.5.2017
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | (mental) health, addiction, childhood, technology-free
Summary | Overexposure to screens can have a really bad impact on very young children's health. Some 3-year old toddlers don't even look at you when you're talking to them; they don't talk and are passive because they've been overexposed to screens. Some of the issues experts have noticed are similar to ASD symptoms: lack of language skills, relationship and behavior trouble.
Image Description | N/A
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