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Learn to speak EMOJI: Translator app turns everything you say into popular symbols
Newspaper | Mail Online
Date | 17.12.2015
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis, translation, youth
Summary | Words do not always express the exact feeling people want to transmit, so emojis can help. Thanks to a new app (SpeakEmoji), you can now translate what you want to say (voice) into emojis. Emojis are a new universal language, so this new app is suited for our digital era. The app was first designed to help parents communicate through emojis. In 2015, an emoji was chosen as word of the year because it represented the mood and preocuppations of the year.
Image Description | Screenshots of the SpeakEmoji app, video of the new translator app, and video of how to use emojis in social media
Image Tags | emojis, male(s), social media
And on the second day, God made the smiley face and the thumbs up: New translation of the Bible is written in EMOJI for millennials
Newspaper | Mail Online
Date | 27.5.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis, translation
Summary | A translation of the Bible written in emojis is now available. The translator said that it makes the Bible more "approachable"; emojis can express emotions in a visual way and in a universal way.
Image Description | Excerpts from the Bible emoji, and screenshot of the online Bible emoji translator.
Image Tags | emojis
Frustrated or triumphant? You are probably sending the wrong signals by using these 12 commonly misunderstood emojis
Newspaper | Mail Online
Date | 20.4.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis, misunderstanding, research/study
Summary | Emojis can be misunderstood although their meaning is thought to be universal. A study revealed which emojis are commonly misunderstood (e.g. emojis with facial expressions). In 2015, the word of the year was an emoji, which shows how popular emojis are.
Image Description | Various images representing confusing emojis, and video of how to use emojis in media.
Image Tags | emojis
What emoji REALLY mean: Researchers rank the sentiment of everything from the happy face to the chicken in bid to make symbols easier to use
Newspaper | Mail Online
Date | 9.12.2015
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis, misunderstanding, research/study
Summary | Communicating with emojis can lead to misunderstandings; their meaning can be ambiguous. A study tried to rank them on an emotion scale based on how negative, neutral, or positive they are. Emojis are ideograms that not only represent emotions; they also transmit ideas.
Image Description | Chart representing the ranking of emojis based on their "sentiment score".
Image Tags | chart, emojis
Teenage girls brand emojis SEXIST as the graphic icons only feature women having their nails done, at the hairdressers and being brides
Newspaper | Mail Online
Date | 3.3.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Summary | Emojis representing girls are very stereotypical; there are not enough options and the available options do no represent women and young girls. An "Always" ad asked young teenage girls what they thought of the available emojis, and they all said they would want to see girl emojis playing sports or working as lawyers or detectives. The set of emojis available now can send a wrong message to girls because they would only see stereotypes. They can also hamper girls' confidence during puberty.
Image Description | Series of screenshots of the video potraying teenage girls and the new emojis they would like to see. Interview (video) of the same teenage girls talking about how emojis represent girls.
Image Tags | emojis, female(s), smartphone
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