Number of Posts: 18
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Das Problem mit dem ;-)
(The problem with ;-))
Newspaper | Appenzeller Zeitung
Date | 3.2.2017
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | email, emojis, misunderstanding, politeness
Summary | First emojis have appeared in official writing: the Norwegien government included emojis in one of their letters. Norwegian linguists are critical of this saying that we need to establish rules about emoji use first because they are easily misunderstood. Emojis have entered our everyday communication so profoundly that we now read even workplace emails without emojis as rude.
Image Description | Getty image of a Macbook keyboard with emoji keys.
Image Tags | computer/laptop, emojis
Lacht er noch oder weint er schon?
(Is he still laughing or is he crying already?)
Newspaper | Appenzeller Zeitung
Date | 5.4.2017
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis, misunderstanding
Summary | Emojis are centrally organized in the Unicode Consortium based in Silicon Valley, CA. They decide which emojis are made available on all devices. They usually accept emojis that are globally significant, like for example the new hijab emoji. Even though they try to make their emoijis more diverse, they still get criticized for giving all male emojis short hair and all female emojis long hair. Many Japanese people say that Westerners misunderstand many of the emotive emojis and misuse them.
Image Description | Emojis.
Image Tags | emojis
Es flitzt der Rollstuhl
(The bolting wheelchair )
Newspaper | Tages-Anzeiger
Date | 16.1.2017
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | (mental) health, diversity, emojis
Summary | A German organization for the inclusion of people with disabilities into public life is offering a set of Inklumojis: emojis that depict people with disabilities. These include a man in a wheelchair with fire shooting out of the back suggesting speed, athletes with leg prosthetics, a romantic couple holding hands, one of them with a prosthetic arm, and many more. Emojis can normalize people with disabilities much easier than big advertising campaigns which is why they will attempt to have their emojis included by the Unicode Consortium.
Image Description | Emojis of people with diabilities.
Image Tags | emojis, female(s), male(s)
Zürich in Zeichen
(Zürich in signs)
Newspaper | Tages-Anzeiger
Date | 14.1.2017
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | emojis, game
Summary | Many new emojis have arrived to our smartphones recently. Tages-Anzeiger offers various emoji riddles for readers to participate. Keywords specific to Zürich are depicted as a sequence of emojis that readers have to decode.
Image Description | Emoji riddles.
Image Tags | emojis
Jetzt kommt die Sticker-Schwemme
(The sticker flood is on its way)
Newspaper | Tages-Anzeiger
Date | 15.11.2016
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | abbreviations, emojis, Facebook, language threat, marketing, social media
Summary | Emoticons (f.i. ":-D") and abbreviations (f.i. "LOL") have trickled down from "geek speak" and established themselves in the mainstream. Emojis are nowadays ever present in our digital communication as well as in other arenas such as film or advertising. Now various social media platforms, among them Facebook, offer users various palettes of stickers. They are larger versions of emojis and are sent as an image file rather than included on the keyboard as a letter. Because many sticker palettes need to be purchased, a whole economy is beginning to form: The Japanese messaging app Line has sold over $250 mio worth of stickers last year. We do not need to fear that emojis and co. will replace language as we know it.
Image Description | Commodified emojis in various forms (as balls, as tattoos, as bed sheets, as food, on clothing, as masks, etc.) and Facebook messenger chats using/purchasing sticker collections.
Image Tags | emojis, Facebook, male(s), social media
Décoder le langage Emoji
(Decoding the emoji language )
Newspaper | Le Matin
Date | 22.1.2016
Language | French
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | emojis, misunderstanding
Summary | Emojis are everywhere. They are used to symbolize emotions, but their meaning is not always clear. In the game "The Great Emoji Challenge", people have to decode messages in emoji. They can win up to one million dollars.
Image Description | Smiling emoji, and money bag emoji
Image Tags | emojis
Apple se mouille
(Apple gets wet)
Newspaper | Le Matin
Date | 15.9.2016
Language | French
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | emojis
Summary | With its iOS 10 update, Apple removed the gun emoji, and replaced it with a water gun. So now violence has of course been eradicated, no one has been killed by a gun, and everyone loves each other. Thanks to Apple, corpses have been replaced by wet T-shirt contests.
Image Description | Images of the gun emoji and the water gun emoji
Image Tags | emojis
Quand les émotions mènent le bal
(When emotions are leading the way)
Newspaper | Le Temps
Date | 9.5.2017
Language | French
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | emojis, Facebook, privacy, social media, threat
Summary | Nowadays, people don't take the time to "think" and go from one emotion to another very quickly, especially on social media. For instance, Facebook introduced its "reaction" buttons. Today, it seems that a laughing emoji is worth a long speech. Facebook can also gather its users' personal information thanks to the reaction buttons. Our communication is now based on emotions, which can be dangerous.
Image Description | Cartoon representing four people chatting; one of the speech bubbles includes a series of different emojis.
Image Tags | emojis
Jetzt kommt die Sticker-Schwemme
(Now comes the sticker flood)
Newspaper | Tages-Anzeiger
Date | 15.11.2016
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | abbreviations, emojis, marketing, texting
Summary | People use emojis to express non-verbal emotions in their text messages. Stickers are more elaborate emojis - larger and there is more of a selection. One can even buy thematic sticker sets. This has become a very profitable industry in Japan.
Image Description | A series of images of that represent the commodification of emojis; also Facebook stickers and Kaomojis (Shruggie with punctuation marks).
Image Tags | emojis
Digitales Leben: Der Boom der Emojis
(Digital life: The boom of emojis)
Newspaper | Handelszeitung
Date | 22.5.2015
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | emojis, marketing, smartphone
Summary | Emojis can no longer be avoided. People from all ranks of life are using them. Companies even use them in marketing and have to regulate their use; the eggplant emoji is inappropriate. Every smartphone has a few hundred emojis available and an app exists that lets users communicate with emojis only – it is called Emojli.
Image Description | Digital image representing different emojis.
Image Tags | emojis
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