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From false-teeth smileys to memory pills: Gran inspires OAP emojis to cater for the older generation
Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 29.10.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis
Summary | Older people don't always find emojis that express what they feel. Diane Hill is 56 and she decided to create new emojis that reflect older people's lives. Some of the emojis include: 'spending the kids' inheritance', 'memory pills', or 'aches and pains'.
Image Description | Photograph of Diane Hill, and four "elderly" emojis.
This 'grimace face' emoji is causing awkward conversations - make sure you're using it correctly
Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 15.4.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis, misunderstanding
Summary | The grimace face emoji does not look the same way on every platform, which can lead to some misunderstandings if people are using different devices.
Image Description | Grimace face emoji, 8 different grimace face emojis from different platforms, screenshots of conversations, and chart about emotion ranking
Image Tags | chart, emojis, text
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)
BBC celebrates the Bard...with emoji website!
Newspaper | Daily Mail (UK)
Date | 22.1.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis, language threat
Summary | The BBC wants to introduce Shakespeare to the Millennials while using emojis. However, people have been complaining and accusing the BBC of dumbing down Shakespeare's work for young people. On the website that the BBC launched, when people choose an emoji, one of Shakespeare's quotes appear. The quote is supposed to express the same feeling as the emoji.
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Court first as judge uses smiley face emoji in ruling
Newspaper | Daily Mail (UK)
Date | 15.9.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis
Summary | A judge included an emoji in an official court judgement related to two children.
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Twitter left off Trump table in spat over Hillary emoji
Newspaper | Metro
Date | 16.12.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis, politics, Twitter
Summary | Because Twitter refused to create a crooked Hillary emoji, the company was left out of a meeting with Donald Trump.
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Newspaper | Metro
Date | 21.10.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis
Summary | The new iOS update allows users to change words into suggested emojis.
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Apple unfurls more millennial-friendly texting tools including 'emoji prediction'
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 14.6.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, emojis, privacy
Summary | Apple talked about the latest updates/developements concerning its products at its annual developer conference in San Francisco. For instance, they talked about the possibility for iPhone users to add larger emojis or emojify their texts. They also discussed the use of digital assistants and AI, and privacy features.
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The Emojibator: how a euphemistic fruit became an actual sex toy
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 27.10.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis
Summary | Jaime Jandler created the emojibator, a sextoy shaped like an eggplant. The emojibator is an homage to the eggplant emojis, which has been used as a representation of a penis.
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Stuck on smileys: the role of emojis in business
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 20.7.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis, marketing
Summary | Emojis can help businesses communicate better. People can use emojis at work in informal situations. Google or eBay employees for instance use platforms such as WhatsApp or Google Messenger in order to make the sharing of information easier. Also, using emojis with colleague on the same level can help develop closer relationships. Finally, companies use emojis to communicate with their customers. Therefore, companies build brand awareness.
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