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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
Can you really lodge official complaints using emojis?
Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 17.9.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis
Summary | People don't always agree on what is appropriate when it comes to emoji usage. If people want to complaint about something, they should be able to express themselves the way the want. They should be able to send a letter, tweet, or even send an emoji, if they want to.
Image Description | Photograph of a hand holding a smartphone, fingers crossed emoji, woman using her phone and opening her mouth, three emojis.
Image Tags | emojis, female(s), hand(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)
Google marks World Emoji Day with a brand new set of emoji and bids farewell to its 'blobs'
Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 17.7.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis, Google
Summary | Google unveiled its new emojis on World Emoji Day. Google said they would remove their 'blobs' and add a new set of emojis.
Image Description | Images of Google's new emojis, and people dressed up as emojis in London.
Image Tags | emojis, female(s)
Headscarf emojis not an option – but teenage girl fixes that
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 14.9.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis
Summary | Rayouf Alhumedhi is a 15-year-old teenage girl who lives in Germany. After noticing that there was no hijab emoji to represent Muslim women, she sent a proposal to Unicode. When she was asked why she wears a headscarf, she said that she actually feels liberated; she can choose what she wants to cover, and this way people see her past her beauty and for her knowledge.
Image Description | Five emojis representing different options for the "headscarf emoji"
Image Tags | emojis, female(s)
So Google wants to make emojis for real women? Here are a few suggestions
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 23.5.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis, gender
Summary | The available emojis are a little traditional and stereotypical. Google is now asking for more female emojis that reflect reality. The author of the article has a few suggestions regarding new female emojis (e.g. resting bitch face, mansplain strain, empowerment batteries, Netflix and chilled by my own inertia, menstruation magician, etc.)
Image Description | Images of 6 alternative female emojis
Image Tags | emojis, female(s)
Google proposes new set of female emojis to promote equality
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 11.5.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis, gender
Summary | Google proposed new emojis representing gender diversity. The new set of emojis includes for instance female engineers, chemists, plumbers, and farmers. Millions of people around the world use emojis, so it is important to represent people accurately.
Image Description | Images of the new set of female emojis.
Image Tags | emojis, female(s)
Emoji overload? Why we're ditching yellow smileys in favour of actual words
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 22.7.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis, language threat
Summary | The author explain why she hates emojis. She dislikes the fact that people can now type a word and replace it with the correspondant emoji. Some technologies have significantly improved our lives, but our emotional communication didn't need to be improved like that, according to the author. Words were fine; there is no need to regress back to "hieroglyphics".
Image Description | Photograph of a young woman smiling and looking at her phone.
Image Tags | female(s), smartphone
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