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Von Japan zu Kim-Kardashian und Vampir-Emojis
(From Japan to Kim Kardashian and vampire emojis)
Newspaper | Sonntagszeitung
Date | 20.8.2017
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | emojis, gender, marketing, research/study, Twitter, What's up Switzerland
Summary | Invented in Japan, emojis are now features in films, art museums, and the marketing strategy of Kim Kardashian. More importantly, they are used in 95% of the WhatsApp data collected by "What's up, Switzerland?". 92% off all internet users use emojis regularly, 57% of emojis on Twitter are from women, and only 7% of people use the peach emoji to mean the actual fruit.
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«In Japan steht für Danke, im Westen für Beten»
("In Japan it means thank you, in the West it signals praying")
Newspaper | Sonntagszeitung
Date | 20.8.2017
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | emojis, marketing, misunderstanding, research/study, texting, translation
Summary | Keith Broni, one of the first emoji translators world-wide, has been chosen from 500 applicants. He has researched the use of emojis at the University of London and he is an expert of how people from different cultures understand emojis. He works as a makerting consultant to various companies and advises them on how to use emojis as a corporation. Using emojis can be fraught with risk as hand gestures can mean very different things in different cultures. Even within the same culture emoji use can be risky. At this point, it is more risky not to use any emojis in casual texting because of the negativity effect which means that messsages without emojis seem cold or distanced.
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Tränen der Freude
(Tears of joy)
Newspaper | Sonntagszeitung
Date | 30.7.2017
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | emojis, Twitter
Summary | The most frequently used emoji on Twitter is the tears-of-joy or laughing-tears emoji. Even an animated film with and about emojis is coming to movie theaters soon. Also, the World Emoji Day was in July.
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Emoji-Engpass bei Coop
(Emoji shortages at Coop)
Newspaper | Sonntagszeitung
Date | 10.4.2017
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | emojis, marketing
Summary | Coop is offering little plastic emoji figurines as customer gifts and collectables. The demand has become so great that the emoji toys were out of stock at times.
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Die Qual der Wahl
(The agony of choice)
Newspaper | Sonntagszeitung
Date | 9.10.2016
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | emojis
Summary | A new iOS app called "Emoji" allows users to vote on which new emojis should become available. Front runners right now are the shush emoji where the index finger is held up to the shushing mouth and the fingers crossed emoji (index and middle finger crossed).
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Buch
(Book)
Newspaper | Sonntagszeitung
Date | 5.6.2016
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | emojis
Summary | A new book by Gavin Lucas called “The Story of Emoji” informs readers of how emoticons were invented and gradually developed into the variety of emojis we know today. The sequence of punctuation marks depicting a smiley face “: -)” was first used by a Pittsburgh-based computer scientist in 1982.
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Muttis Welt
(Mommy’s world)
Newspaper | Sonntagszeitung
Date | 28.8.2016
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | emojis, social media
Summary | Three women from Boston developed an app with 250 new emojis all depicting various aspects of parenthood and especially motherhood. The emojis address taboo topics of childcare and pregnancy such as being in labor, baby’s spit-up, and milk-pumping. Many parents however overshare these personal experiences on social media; a phenomenon previously named ‘sharenting’.
Image Description | Digital image representing three pregnant women emojis.
Image Tags | emojis, female(s)
Smileys sind die Heuschrecken der Neuzeit
(Smileys are the locusts of modern age)
Newspaper | Sonntagszeitung
Date | 25.5.2014
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | emojis
Summary | Emoticons are everywhere: in messages, statuses, and emails. They are supposed to indicate emotions and add nuance when something is funny or sarcastic. Humorous texts should need a flag to alert readers of their jocular intent. Communicating emotions through emojis shows either an inability to communicate complex feelings in writing or unwillingness thereof.
Image Description | Illustration of the author of the article.
Image Tags | male(s)
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