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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)
Emoji Feminism
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 13.3.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis, gender
Summary | When the author of the article texted a friend to congratulate her, she wanted to include emojis in her text. She sent her friend a unicorn emoji, and then paused to wonder why she'd sent a unicorn. Where was the emoji for her friend who had just received tenure? On our keyboards, emojis portraying females are stereotypical. Where is the female professor emoji?
Image Description | N/A
Emoji Gender Choices
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 24.3.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis, gender
Summary | The Unicode Consortium wants to create more diverse female and male emojis, and has posted a call for feedback. The Unicode also welcomes new emoji proposals.
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Emojis Would Show Women Doing More Than Painting Their Nails
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 13.5.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis, gender
Summary | Female emojis are princesses, brides, paint their nails, or get a haircut. Google decided to add new female emojis to represent women in professional roles (e.g. health care, factories, farms). However, more people such as Michelle Obama want to see more emojis representing girls (e.g. an emoji of a girl studying).
Image Description | N/A
Muslim Teenager Proposes Emoji of Woman Wearing a Head Scarf
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 14.9.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis
Summary | A muslim teenager from Germany didn't think she could fully express herself with the emojis available on her phone; she wanted to use a hijab emoji. She emailed her proposal to the Unicode Consortium, and her proposal caught the eye of Unicode employees. Since there are about 550 million women who wear a hijab, she thought it was a good reason to propose a hijab emoji. Women want to be better represented on their keyboard, this is why there has been various requests to add more diverse female emojis.
Image Description | Pictures of potential hijab emojis
Image Tags | emojis
15-jährige Berlinerin erfindet Kopftuch-Emoji
(15 year old Berliner creates hijab emoji)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 15.9.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis
Summary | A 15 year old girl from Berlin has submitted a hijab emoji design to the Unicode Consortium. That is the organization which authorizes new emojis. The designer, Rajouf Alhumedi argued that a hijab is part of many women's identity and that that should be represented in emojis. Emojis have become a valid language of its own - the Oxford English Dictionary even picked an emoji as the word of the year once.
Image Description | The new emojis.
Image Tags | emojis
"Apple, was hast du meinen Emojis angetan?"
("Apple, what have you done to my emojis?")
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 14.9.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis, Twitter
Summary | The new Apple update comes with redesigned emojis and people are devastated. The changed look of the emojis makes many users sad to the extend that they feel like they "have lost a friend", one person on Twitter writes. There are also a few new emojis, most notably: all emojis are available in multiple skin shades and most emojis now exist in a male and female version. There is also an emoji of a homosexual couple now.
Image Description | A series of Tweets about the new emojis.
Image Tags | emojis, Twitter
Entwaffnend
(Disarming)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 3.8.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis, politics, punctuation, threat
Summary | Punctuation marks are probably jealous of emojis because they are replacing them! Discussion about emojis is becoming increasingly political. New emojis represent various skin colors, and both men and women for all activities/professions, for instance a female police officer and basketball player. Apple has even decided to replace the gun emoji with a water pistol in light of recent gun violence deaths in the US. Most People however ridicule Apple's move and argue that it is more of a PR stunt than a political statement.
Image Description | N/A
Endlich, ein Emoji für Döner
(Finally, an emoji for Döner Kebab)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 4.6.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis, selfie
Summary | The Unicode Consortium has published the 72 new emojis to join the old corpus. It include a lot of additional animals, foods, sports, as well as a selfie emoji. The new emojis however also work towards more diversity: Mrs Santa, a prince, a male dancer, and a groom are now available on all platforms.
Image Description | Emojis.
Image Tags | emojis
Muslimische Smileys
(Muslim smileys)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 18.3.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis
Summary | An app with muslim-themed emojis is now available. The emojis can however only be sent as image files and not integrated in the keyboard. They would have to be included by the Unicode Consortium for that to be possible and an Australian is already petitioning to Unicode to include muslim emojis. Meanwhile, Indonesia wants to force Unicode to block all emojis depicting homosexuality within the country because it clashes with their Islamic morals and values.
Image Description | The Muslim Emojis in use.
Image Tags | emojis, female(s), male(s)
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