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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)
Auf diese 69 Emojis können sich Smartphone-Nutzer freuen
(Smartphone users can look forward to these 69 emojis)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 23.3.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis
Summary | The next OS update is near and it will include 69 new emojis approved by the Unicode Consortium. Among them are a tyrannosaurus rex, a zombie, a puking emoji, and many others. All emojis are now available in male and female versions.
Image Description | The new emojis.
Image Tags | emojis
15-jährige Berlinerin erfindet Kopftuch-Emoji
(15 year old Berliner creates hijab emoji)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 15.9.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis
Summary | A 15 year old girl from Berlin has submitted a hijab emoji design to the Unicode Consortium. That is the organization which authorizes new emojis. The designer, Rajouf Alhumedi argued that a hijab is part of many women's identity and that that should be represented in emojis. Emojis have become a valid language of its own - the Oxford English Dictionary even picked an emoji as the word of the year once.
Image Description | The new emojis.
Image Tags | emojis
"Apple, was hast du meinen Emojis angetan?"
("Apple, what have you done to my emojis?")
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 14.9.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis, Twitter
Summary | The new Apple update comes with redesigned emojis and people are devastated. The changed look of the emojis makes many users sad to the extend that they feel like they "have lost a friend", one person on Twitter writes. There are also a few new emojis, most notably: all emojis are available in multiple skin shades and most emojis now exist in a male and female version. There is also an emoji of a homosexual couple now.
Image Description | A series of Tweets about the new emojis.
Image Tags | emojis, Twitter
Endlich, ein Emoji für Döner
(Finally, an emoji for Döner Kebab)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 4.6.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis, selfie
Summary | The Unicode Consortium has published the 72 new emojis to join the old corpus. It include a lot of additional animals, foods, sports, as well as a selfie emoji. The new emojis however also work towards more diversity: Mrs Santa, a prince, a male dancer, and a groom are now available on all platforms.
Image Description | Emojis.
Image Tags | emojis
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)
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)
Endlich kommt das Emoji, auf das die Welt gewartet hat
(The emoji everyone has been waiting for is finally here)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 2.11.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis
Summary | 72 new emojis will be added with the next apple update: a selfie emoji, a facepalm emoji, a male dancer, prince, and Mrs. Santa Claus emoji as well as bacon, croissant, and spoon emojis. What German users are however most excited about is the doner kebab emoji which the Unicode Consortium has plainly named "stuffed flat bread".
Image Description | Video about the new emojis.
Image Tags | emojis, hand(s), smartphone
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)
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