Number of Posts: 18
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Des entreprises au militantisme, la communication des émojis
(From companies to militancy, emoji communication)
Newspaper | Le Figaro
Date | 17.7.2017
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis, marketing
Summary | Emojis are a fully-fledged language and a means of influence that internet users and business companies want to use. Emojis were created in Japan at the end of the 1990s. Now, the Unicode Consortium gets to decide what emojis we can use. Anyone can submit a proposal for a new emoji; in 2015, a Muslim teenage girl launched a campaign for the introduction of a hijab emoji.
Image Description | People sitting and watching a game; two of them are wearing emoji masks.
Image Tags | emojis
Des émojis pour briser un tabou
(Emojis to break a taboo)
Newspaper | Le Parisien
Date | 31.5.2017
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis
Summary | "Plan International" fights for young people's rights in developing countries. The organization asked internet users to choose an emoji to talk about women's periods. They can choose from 5 explicit "drawings". The CEO of Plan International thinks that including a period emoji is necessary; it is supposed to break a taboo.
Image Description | Images of possible "period emojis".
Image Tags | emojis
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 Thanks to Apple, corpses have been replaced by wet T-shirt contests.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
Les « emoji » constituent-ils un langage à part entière?
(Are emojis part of a fully-fledged language?)
Newspaper | Le Monde
Date | 15.3.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | emojis, language threat, research/study
Summary | In 2015, an emoji was chosen as the word of the year, and two years before that, the novel Moby Dick was translated in emojis. Emojis are everywhere; are they becoming a new universal language? Two linguists conducted a study and revealed that emojis are like a cultural mirror. They also investigated emoji use in different countries and revealed geographical differences in the type of emoji used. Emojis are not a language; they are a complement to language. Some people might think it’s a language because emojis look like hieroglyphics. Emojis are mostly used to transmit emotions.
Image Description | Photograph of a hand clicking on several emojis on a screen, and screenshot of Andy Murray's tweet composed of emojis.
Image Tags | emojis, hand(s), tablet, Twitter
Un emoji de fusil retiré de la liste des 72 nouveaux symboles
(A rifle emoji dropped from the list of 72 new symbols)
Newspaper | Le Monde
Date | 20.6.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | emojis
Summary | The Unicode Consortium decided not to include the rifle emoji in its latest update. The rifle emoji was created for the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics. The Unicode refused to explain this political decision.
Image Description | Two images of the rifle emoji.
Image Tags | emojis
Au Japon, des emojis « lost in translation »
(In Japan, emojis "lost in translation")
Newspaper | Le Monde
Date | 7.12.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | emojis, misunderstanding
Summary | The 2020 Summer Olympics' organizers are encountering a series of problems. The Japanese government and the Olympic committee want to make sure of the unambiguity of certain emojis before thousands of foreign visitors come to Japan for the Olympics. One symbol seem to be misunderstood: a symbol representing hotsprings is seen as a bowl of hot soup. This reminds us of the fact that emojis do not bear enough information to make it a fully-fledge language.
Image Description | Image of the hotsprings emoji.
Image Tags | emojis
« LOL » et « omg » menacés par les « emoji », selon Instagram
("LOL" and "omg" threated by "emojis", according to Instagram)
Newspaper | Le Monde
Date | 7.5.2015
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | emojis, Instagram, research/study, translation
Summary | Instagram conducted a study on emojis, and revealed that they tend to replace certain Internet expressions. Today, half of Instagram posts have emojis. The use of emojis is changing people’s Instagram language. This language change led someone to translate an entire book (Moby Dick) in emojis. The Instagram search engine now allows people to look for posts using emojis.
Image Description | Two charts: one showing the use of internet slang compared to emojis, and the other showing the breakdown of emoji use on Instagram by country.
Images of three emojis.
Image Tags | chart, emojis
L’emoji, un caractère envahissant
(The emoji, an invading character)
Newspaper | Le Monde
Date | 10.5.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | emojis, language threat
Summary | The Unicode Consortium (UC) was accused of spending too much time on emojis and not enough time on minority languages. Michael Everson complained because his propositions (e.g. coding medieval punctuation marks) have been ignored by the UC. However, the UC only counts 1500 emojis out of 120000 characters. Accoding to linguist Gretchen McCulloch, emojis are not a fully-fledge language; they are a complement to language.
Image Description | Screenshot of a new text message with with many different emojis.
Image Tags | emojis, text
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