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Weißt du, was diese Emojis wirklich bedeuten?
(Do you know what these emojis really mean?)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 30.9.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | emojis, misunderstanding, punctuation, texting
Summary | We cannot imagine texting nowadays without emojis. They have become as important to us as punctuation. They serve to add a specific tone to our messages or to present them in a specific light. They are however also very easy to misunderstand. Do we really know what the emojis stand for? Here is an emoji quiz to text your emoji literacy!
Image Description | Artsy photograph of women texting and using emojis, a GIF, and emojis.
Image Tags | emojis, female(s), gifs, smartphone
Liebesgeschichte, Heldenreise, Flachwitze, Kacke
(Love story, a hero's journey, flat jokes, poop)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 2.8.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | childhood, emojis, marketing, smartphone, texting, threat, youth
Summary | The new emoji movie for children is an animated film starring emojis as its main protagonists. Critics find it quite distasteful because it is full of casual advertising for major tech companies and because it does not address the danger of the internet at all. In Textopolis, the world in which emojis live, alphabetic letters are depicted as elderly with walking canes because the youth does not use letters anymore.
Image Description | Screenshots from the Emoji movie.
Image Tags | emojis, female(s), male(s)
Die Frau, die ungewollt mit Emojis ein Haus mietete
(The woman who inadvertently rented a house with emojis)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 24.5.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | emojis, language threat, law, misunderstanding
Summary | The debate around whether emojis count as words or seriously meaningful content is very heated - not only in academics but also in law. The Oxford English dictionary only reheated that fire by choosing an emoji as word of the year. Multiple law cases have centered on misunderstandings around emoji use, most recently a case where a woman indicated interest in renting a house with emojis (flamenco dancer, dancer girls, squirrel, comet, a victory sign, and a bottle of Champagne). The house owner sued her for using misleading emojis after she decided not to rent the house after all.
Image Description | An image of a woman's hand holding a smartphone and picking out an emoji and a portrait of the Israely judge who worked on the emoji case.
Image Tags | emojis, female(s), hand(s), male(s), smartphone
Brauchen wir ein Emoji mit nicht-binärer Geschlechtsidentität?
(Do we need an emoji with a non-binary gender identity?)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 14.5.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis, gender, research/study
Summary | A new package of emojis will be released soon. One of them represents a person who is neither entirely male nor female, i.e. of non-binary gender identity. It is questionable whether it is worthwhile to represent such a small minority, seeing that there is no redhead emoji either because only 2% of the global population are redheads. A linguist of the research project "What's Up, Germany?" however argues that having a gender inclusive emoji is sending a powerful sign and can affect society via language in the long-term.
Image Description | A Getty image of a woman vomiting a rainbow, a tweet about the gender inclusive emoji, and a few GIFs of celebrities.
Image Tags | emojis, female(s), gifs, male(s)
Muslimische Smileys
(Muslim smileys)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 18.3.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis
Summary | An app with muslim-themed emojis is now available. The emojis can however only be sent as image files and not integrated in the keyboard. They would have to be included by the Unicode Consortium for that to be possible and an Australian is already petitioning to Unicode to include muslim emojis. Meanwhile, Indonesia wants to force Unicode to block all emojis depicting homosexuality within the country because it clashes with their Islamic morals and values.
Image Description | The Muslim Emojis in use.
Image Tags | emojis, female(s), male(s)
Diese Technik soll uns den Alltag erleichtern
(This technology should make our daily lives easier)
Newspaper | Tages-Anzeiger
Date | 5.4.2017
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, privacy, research/study, smartphone, translation
Summary | Computer are becoming more and more intertwined in our daily lives. Some smartphones can already translate real-time conversations with imitating the speakers voice thanks to advances in voice recognition. Image recognition has also advanced substantially to being able to "read" moods, age, and attractiveness of the photographed individuals. Research is being done for smartphones and other devices to monitor body odor, sweat (to allet to dehydration), or tear liquid (for diabetics).
Image Description | Various simple visualizations of smartphones/devices interacting with people (depicted by emojis), body parts, et cetera.
Image Tags | chart, emojis, female(s), smartphone
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)
Kopftuch-Emoji und 50 weitere Zeichen könnten 2017 kommen
(Hijab emoji and 50 other signs could come in 2017)
Newspaper | Hamburger Abendblatt
Date | 11.11.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis
Summary | The Unicode Constortium has published a list of 51 emojis that they are planning on adding to the collection this year. Among them are a breast-feeding emoji, an emo emoji, as well as a hijab emoji. None of these are 100% confirmed but the hijab emoji has very prominent supporters: the Reddit founder created a thread specifically for the 15-year old girl from Berlin who submitted the design for the hijab emoji.
Image Description | A collection of emojis.
Image Tags | emojis, female(s)
Es lebe das Kopftuch-Smiley
(Long live the hijab emoji)
Newspaper | Berliner Kurier
Date | 14.11.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis
Summary | A 15 year old girl from Berlin submitted a hijab emoji proposal to the Unicode Consortium who are in charge of adding new emojis. Low and behold, the proposal was accepted and now there will be an emoji of a smiling woman in a hijab on phones all around the world to represent the 550 million women wearing hijabs. The proposal had been very popular on social media so the wide support certainly helped.
Image Description | Hijab emoji proposal document (7 pages).
Image Tags | emojis, female(s)
Das sind die beliebtesten Fotos auf Instagram 2016
(These are the most popular photographs on Instagram 2016)
Newspaper | Hamburger Abendblatt
Date | 1.12.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | emojis, Instagram
Summary | The undefeated queen of Instagram is Selena Gomez. She has the most followers: over one million. Many of the most-liked pictures on Instagram are hers. Another extremely popular picture on Instagram is of Christiano Ronaldo kissing the trophy of the European football championship. The general mood on Instagram is positive with the most popular emojis being hearts and the most popular hashtags revolving around happiness.
Image Description | Various popular Instagram posts.
Image Tags | emojis, female(s), Instagram, male(s)
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