Number of Posts: 13
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Mit dem Selfiestick im Späti rumeiern
(Egging around at the deli with the selfie stick)
Newspaper | Tages-Anzeiger
Date | 9.8.2017
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | anglicisms, artificial intelligence, emojis, Facebook, fake news, language threat, selfie
Summary | The new German dictionary "Duden" has added 5000 new key words, many of which are originally English. Now, having been included in the most authoritative dictionary in German language, they are officially part of the German language as anglicisms. Such words include fake news, emoji, selfie, chatbot, and liking ("liken" in German with the English word stem "like" and the German infinitive verb ending "-en").
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Der Herr der Smileys
(The Lord of Smileys)
Newspaper | Tages-Anzeiger
Date | 29.7.2017
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | computer programming, emojis, misunderstanding, translation
Summary | The Unicode chief, Mark Davis, assesses which new emojis make it into the Unicode which all major tech firms use. Anyone can propose an emoji but they have to argue why it is a globally significant symbol. They are then written into the Unicode which is a computer code that works for all languages. Tech firms then choose the font for the letters and emojis in which these symbols appear on their devices. Tech companies have chosen more similar emoji fonts over the last years to avoid misunderstandings between devices of different providers if the emojis are displayed differently.
Image Description | Portrait of the interviewee Mark Davis.
Image Tags | male(s)
Lachen, bis es wehtut
(Laugh till it hurts)
Newspaper | Tages-Anzeiger
Date | 7.6.2017
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | emojis
Summary | The laughing tears emoji is being used inflationally. We all remember a few special moments in our lives when we laughed so hard that we had to wipe tears off our face. This special sensation is being thrown around digitally usually accompagnying mediocre jokes at best.
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Der Dreh ins Glück
(The spin into happiness)
Newspaper | Tages-Anzeiger
Date | 16.4.2017
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | emojis, youth
Summary | Analog technologies become more and more trendy among digital natives. Vinyl album sales have increased and e-book sales are steadily decreasing. People, especially young people for whom the immaculacy of new technologies is normal, yearn towards old technologies that show the signs of usage. Even Coop has caught on and is giving away little plastic emoji figurines.
Image Description | Getty image of a vinyl album.
Es flitzt der Rollstuhl
(The bolting wheelchair )
Newspaper | Tages-Anzeiger
Date | 16.1.2017
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | (mental) health, diversity, emojis
Summary | A German organization for the inclusion of people with disabilities into public life is offering a set of Inklumojis: emojis that depict people with disabilities. These include a man in a wheelchair with fire shooting out of the back suggesting speed, athletes with leg prosthetics, a romantic couple holding hands, one of them with a prosthetic arm, and many more. Emojis can normalize people with disabilities much easier than big advertising campaigns which is why they will attempt to have their emojis included by the Unicode Consortium.
Image Description | Emojis of people with diabilities.
Image Tags | emojis, female(s), male(s)
Zürich in Zeichen
(Zürich in signs)
Newspaper | Tages-Anzeiger
Date | 14.1.2017
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | emojis, game
Summary | Many new emojis have arrived to our smartphones recently. Tages-Anzeiger offers various emoji riddles for readers to participate. Keywords specific to Zürich are depicted as a sequence of emojis that readers have to decode.
Image Description | Emoji riddles.
Image Tags | emojis
Ein Update für Emoji-Fans
(An update for emoji fans)
Newspaper | Tages-Anzeiger
Date | 13.12.2016
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | emojis
Summary | The new Apple update includes 70 new emojis entered by the Unicode Consortium: various new animals, vegetables, bacon, doner kebab, a scary clown, a pinocchio nose, as well as a facepalm emoji. Thanks to the new pregnant woman emoji, pregnancy announcements can now be made with a minimal character count.
Image Description | Keystone image of hands holding an iPhone and another iPhone lying next to it.
Image Tags | hand(s), smartphone
Jetzt kommt die Sticker-Schwemme
(The sticker flood is on its way)
Newspaper | Tages-Anzeiger
Date | 15.11.2016
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | abbreviations, emojis, Facebook, language threat, marketing, social media
Summary | Emoticons (f.i. ":-D") and abbreviations (f.i. "LOL") have trickled down from "geek speak" and established themselves in the mainstream. Emojis are nowadays ever present in our digital communication as well as in other arenas such as film or advertising. Now various social media platforms, among them Facebook, offer users various palettes of stickers. They are larger versions of emojis and are sent as an image file rather than included on the keyboard as a letter. Because many sticker palettes need to be purchased, a whole economy is beginning to form: The Japanese messaging app Line has sold over $250 mio worth of stickers last year. We do not need to fear that emojis and co. will replace language as we know it.
Image Description | Commodified emojis in various forms (as balls, as tattoos, as bed sheets, as food, on clothing, as masks, etc.) and Facebook messenger chats using/purchasing sticker collections.
Image Tags | emojis, Facebook, male(s), social media
Jetzt kommt die Sticker-Schwemme
(Now comes the sticker flood)
Newspaper | Tages-Anzeiger
Date | 15.11.2016
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | abbreviations, emojis, marketing, texting
Summary | People use emojis to express non-verbal emotions in their text messages. Stickers are more elaborate emojis - larger and there is more of a selection. One can even buy thematic sticker sets. This has become a very profitable industry in Japan.
Image Description | A series of images of that represent the commodification of emojis; also Facebook stickers and Kaomojis (Shruggie with punctuation marks).
Image Tags | emojis
Like? Haha. Love! Sad? Wow. Angry
Newspaper | Tages-Anzeiger
Date | 26.2.2016
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | emojis, Facebook
Summary | Facebook has a new reaction feature that is an expansion of the “like” function: users can now not only “like” content on Facebook but also, laugh at it, love it, be sad about it, be amazed by it, or angry at it. These five newly available reactions are depicted with emojis. Users were generally content with the new feature, although some think it is controversial. Many inappropriate happy reactions were for instance recorded when a refugee camp caught fire.
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