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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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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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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
WhatsApp-GIFs jetzt auch auf Android
(WhatsApp GIFs now also on Android)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 12.1.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | emojis, GIFs, WhatsApp
Summary | WhatsApp are working on making GIFs available to users within the app. The moving images are very popular because they are more expressive than emojis but also do not use much more data or space on the smartphone's storage. GIFs had previously been availble in text messaging to iPhone users and now WhatsApp is trying to catch up.
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23 versteckte WhatsApp-Tricks
(23 hidden WhatsApp tricks)
Newspaper | Norddeutscher Rundfunk
Date | 25.1.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | GIFs, privacy, texting, WhatsApp
Summary | WhatsApp has added many new features over the years that not everyone may have heard about; from text design options to the sending of documents, doing video chats, or creating your own GIF. User can personalize their privacy settings to some extent, because even if one turns off the read receipt feature (blue ticks), others can still get that information with a few clicks. Treasured conversations can be saved and annoying contacts blocked or muted.
Image Description | Screenshots with instructions.
Image Tags | emojis, WhatsApp
Emojis are everywhere — including in their own Hollywood movie
Newspaper | Los Angeles Times
Date | 21.2.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | emojis, GIFs, marketing
Summary | Emojis have entered all aspects of our daily lives - our digital communication on various platforms and channels, comedians translate news into 'emoji news' as a joke, and now an animated emoji movie is being produced in Hollywood. The film industry has caught onto the emoji craze for marketing purposes as well. Making available special emojis for an upcomig movie has become a wide-spread part of pre-release marketing. The public relations staff of film marketing want to support fandoms in any way they can - be it with specialized emojis or GIFs.
Image Description | A screenshot of The Emoji Movie.
Image Tags | emojis
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