Digital Discourse Database

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How to get the Pride rainbow flag reaction on Facebook

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Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 12.6.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis, Facebook
Summary | Facebook added a temporary rainbow flag emoji to celebrate Pride month. The flag emoji joined the other reaction buttons.
Image Description | Screenshot of Facebook's reactions, people's tweets about the flag, Google search bar with the word 'lgbt'.
Image Tags | Facebook, Google, Twitter

Apple shows off new emojis coming to your iPhone - including breastfeeding, hijabi and 'mind blown'

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Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 18.7.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis
Summary | New Apple emojis will soon be arriving: they include for instance a breastfeeding, hijab, bearded man, face vomiting, and mind blown emojis.
Image Description | Digital images of the new emojis.
Image Tags | emojis

Redheads could FINALLY be getting a ginger emoji after long campaign for equality

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Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 23.1.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis
Summary | At a meeting next week, Apple will discuss the introduction of a new Ginger emoji. They will see for instance whether they will introduce a new person with red hair or custom hair tags to existing emojis.
Image Description | Photograph of a hand holding a smartphone and choosing a ginger emoji, digital images representing various redhead emojis as well as other emojis
Image Tags | emojis, hand(s), smartphone

Tech’s sexism doesn’t stay in Silicon Valley. It’s in the products you use.

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Newspaper | Washington Post
Date | 8.8.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | (mental) health, artificial intelligence, diversity, gender, research/study
Summary | Slicon Valley has been entangled in scandals around sexism and racism recently. Many innovations incorporate artificial intelligence which means that the software learns from data reflecting our social reality but which are biased. This leads to issues like image recognition not recognizing black people as humans but as gorillas because the data the program learned from included predominantly white people. A similar case is a health app that tracked various physical paramenters but not the menstrual cycle thereby disregarding a large proportion of the female population.
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In a Tiny Digital Icon, Big Aspirations

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Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 27.5.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis, Twitter
Summary | A new emoji representing the Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags was added to Twitter; this digital recognition was significant. Emojis are everywhere and everyone uses them; they have become an important part of our communication. The new emoji was added to Twitter on a special day: during Australia's 50th anniversary of the vote to include indigenous people in the national census. The new emoji can thus be shared easily. Although adding the new emoji might seem insignificant, an associate professor of indigenous studies says that adding the flags represents an important move by Twitter.
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Apple Welcomes New Faces To Its Growing Emoji List

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Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 18.7.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis
Summary | Apple shared a preview of a set of its 12 new emojis. Some of the new emojis are a woman wearing a hijab, a breastfeeding woman, a face throwing up, a zombie, and a sandwich. Apple's goal has been to be more diverse and inclusive, which is why we'll be able to use a hijab or breastfeeding emoji. There are several requirements to meet in order to see a new emoji on our keyboard: compatibility with emojis in other social media platforms and expected level of use.
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Redhead emoji finally on the table after campaign for ginger equality

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Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 20.1.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis
Summary | The readhead emoji will be released soon. People had been complaining about the lack of ginger emojis. There will be two possibilities: a single readhead emoji, or custom-hair option to choose "red hair". The campaign to introduced a ginger emoji was launched in Scotland.
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Twitter adds support for 69 new emoji - but there's a very annoying catch

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Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 25.5.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis, Twitter
Summary | Twitter introduced 69 new emojis. However, since the characters are part of the Unicode 10.0 release, those who are using macOS, iOS, Android or Windows won't be able to see the new emojis on their Twitter apps.
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Redheads rejoice as ginger emoji moves a step closer to reality

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Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 17.5.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis
Summary | Redhead, bald, curly and white-haired emojis are candidates for the new Unicode release. Several options are possible: introducing a custom hair tag, or including "people" with different hair colors.
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Redhead emoji FINALLY on the cards after long campaign for ginger equality

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Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 20.1.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis
Summary | Apple is thinking about introducing a new ginger emoji. However, they still don't know what the new emoji will look look like. Should they introduce a custom hair tag to existing emoji or add new people with red hair?
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