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Surfing With a New Keyboard
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 8.6.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | emojis, GIFs, Google, smartphone, texting, translation, word/writing
Summary | Third party keyboards are now available to download to your smartphone. One of them is Gboard, it is very good at translating your texts in real-time. Some keyboards also offer a search function for emojis or GIFs. The swipe-typing feature is also very popular which allows users to swipe across the letters to enter words rather than type each individual letter.
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Can't find the right emoji? AI app analyses your message to suggest the perfect memes, emoticons and gifs while you type
Newspaper | Mail Online
Date | 14.6.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, emojis, GIFs, meme, texting
Summary | A new app called Dango uses artificial intelligence to suggest the most appropriate emojis, GIFs, or memes you can use. Thanks to AI, the app analyzes the meaning of your text messages.
Image Description | Screenshot of Dango's chat bubble, photograph of a series of emojis on a screen, and chart explaining how Dango's neural system works.
Image Tags | chart, emojis, smartphone, text
Making Your Messages Really Move
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 20.6.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | GIFs, texting
Summary | To get GIFs into text messages quickly, users should use a dedicated keyboard that can search a GIF library. GIFs can also be found online; in this case, users can share the link in their messages. People can also download the GIF Keyboard app which will allow users to share GIFs faster. Google's Gboard keyboard app also has shortcuts to GIFs and emojis.
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Images Worth a Thousand Tweets
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 7.1.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | GIFs, politics
Summary | Pieces of technology sometimes alter political campaigns (e.g. Calvin Coolidge with the radio, or JFK with the first TV debate). During the 2016 Presidential election, GIFs may have influenced the election. How so? If you think about memorable events from the campaign, those that seem to stick have been reduced to GIFs (e.g. Trump Faces GIF). GIFs show us another (more human) side of politicians.
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Apple Opens the iMessage Door, and the Ephemera Rushes In
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 22.9.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | emojis, GIFs, word/writing
Summary | An Apple user of iMessage can now use different "tchotchkees" (e.g. GIFs, stickers, emojis) which dominate text messages whereas words are just "afterthought". Users can also throw confetti and balloons. Apple is trying to mimic what is out there on the internet.
Image Description | Screenshots of iMessage chats with words and stickers/emojis/GIFs/confetti, and screenshot of a tweet
Image Tags | emojis, gifs, text, Twitter
Bild + Text = Kunst
(Image + text = art)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 30.3.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | emojis, GIFs, Snapchat, texting
Summary | The smartphone generation fears nothing more than bland text messages. Language has become more multimodal: the word of the year chosen by the Oxford English Dictionary is an emoji! The makers of the app Legend have recognized this and allow users to upload Images and edit them with text, color, filters, and animations - much like on Snapchat. The product can be sent on any platform as a video or GIF.
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600 millions de dollars pour Giphy, le roi du «GIF»
(600 million dollars for Giphy, the king of "GIF")
Newspaper | 24 heures
Date | 8.11.2016
Language | French
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | GIFs
Summary | Several companies share the "GIF market", but one of them (Giphy) seems to stand out. GIF stands for "Graphics Interchange Format" and are very popular nowadays. They usually come from TV shows, movies, or animated movies.
Image Description | Screenshot of Giphy's website
Image Tags | gifs
Can a GIF Work Better Than Words?
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 21.9.2015
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | emojis, GIFs, language threat, word/writing
Summary | An interviewee claims that using GIFs allows her to express complex feelings and emotions in a a couple seconds. GIFs are becoming more and more popular (i.e. on Facebook, Tumblr, etc.). Words and emojis are becoming old-fashioned.
Image Description | GIF representing three men looking at their smartphone.
Image Tags | gifs, male(s), smartphone
Snap Makes a Bet on the Cultural Supremacy of the Camera
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 8.3.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | GIFs, language threat, Snapchat
Summary | Snapchat is showing us the future: communication is switching to more visual modes of communication such as photographs, videos, GIFs, funny filters. Linguist Gretchen McCulloch has argued that Snapchat filters constitute a new mode of phatic communication. We have seen the primacy of text gradually broken up in the past decade. This does not mean, however, that the written language will disappear altogether. Text is still very important for conveying accurate information concisely.
Image Description | GIF with anthropomorphic cameras and emojis dancing around.
Image Tags | camera, emojis, gifs
Einfach mehr aus WhatsApp rausholen
(Just get more out of WhatsApp)
Newspaper | B.Z. (Berlin)
Date | 10.11.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | GIFs, WhatsApp
Summary | Many people have WhatsApp: 69% of Germans have it. But many do not know about fantastic new features that have been added over time. One can now send GIFs over WhatsApp or change the font of one's messages. One can also underline or cross out one's messages. There is a feature that shows users their WhatsApp usage statistics, how many messages they sent, how many they received, and so on.
Image Description | Screenshots of instructions.
Image Tags | WhatsApp
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