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What is an Animoji? Apple leak reveals iPhone 8 feature that makes emojis based on your facial expressions
Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 12.9.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis
Summary | Apple leak revealed a new feature of the new iPhones 8 and X: a facial recognition software that can makes animated emojis.
Image Description | Images of different emojis, 3D face, portraits of celebrities, photographs of the iPhone X box, videos of the iPhone X, and photographs of the new iPhone.
Image Tags | emojis, female(s), hand(s), male(s), smartphone
How emojis took over your workplace - and the man who can help you make sense of it all
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 14.8.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis
Summary | Emojis are everywhere, even in one of the latest movies. Also, 92% of internet users in the world claim they use emojis in their digital communication. Emojis are not only used by teenage girls, workers also use them in their work emails. Keith Broni talks about the use of emojis in work emails and some rules people should follow.
Image Description | Photograph of a hand holding a smartphone displaying a chat conversation and emojis, portrait of Keith Broni, and woman in front of a big screen.
Image Tags | emojis, female(s), hand(s), male(s), smartphone, text
Why you should think twice before using emojis in your work emails
Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 14.8.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | email, emojis, research/study
Summary | People shouldn't use emojis in their work emails. A new study analyzed the effects of emojis in work emails, and employees actually claimed that people who use emojis in their work emails seem less competent.
Image Description | Images of different emojis, photograph of a man staring at his phone, and woman holding her head and looking worried.
Image Tags | emojis, female(s), male(s)
Hundreds of people around the globe dress as emojis for International Emoji Day record attempt
Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 17.7.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis
Summary | People around the world dressed up as emojis to celebrate World Emoji Day. They wanted to set a new Guinness World Record.
Image Description | Video showing people dressed up as emojis, and five photographs of people dressed up as emojis.
Image Tags | emojis, female(s), male(s)
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)
5 easy and simple ways to protect your privacy online - how to prepare for the next big threat
Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 18.8.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | privacy, threat
Summary | Privacy expert Mark Weinstein shares some tips to protect your privacy online: use safe internet browsers, be careful where you search (for instance, Google saves all of your searches), WhatsApp is not as private as what you might think, use a cloud storage that can't see your information, etc. We should be worried about our privacy in the future as governments are trying to get backdoor access to apps and digital devices. Millennials seem to be the ones that are most concerned about their online privacy.
Image Description | Photographs of a woman in front of social media icons, two hands using computer mice and a keyboard, fingers touching a screen displaying the Google search bar, WhatsApp icon, cloud storage icons, hand holding a smartphone in front of the Facebook logo, portrait of Tim Cook, and Facebook "laughing" reaction button
Image Tags | emojis, Facebook, female(s), Google, hand(s), keyboard, male(s), smartphone, social media, WhatsApp
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)
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)
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