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Emojis to grace Pepsi products in summer campaign
Newspaper | USA Today
Date | 19.2.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | emojis, hashtags, marketing, social media
Summary | Pepsi is using emojis to market their product because it is the "language of today" that transcends cultures and is intellegible for everyone. The new campaign also includes the two hasthags #PepsiMoji and #SayItWithPepsi to encourage consumers to post about their purchase on social media. Coca Cola recently had a similar campaign with first names on their bottles. They had been very successful with making consumers engage with the company through social media. Consumers basically did free marketing for them by posting pictures of Coke bottles with their names on their private accounts.
Image Description | Pepsi bottles with emojis and Coca Cola bottles with first names.
Image Tags | emojis, logo
President @realdonaldtrump
Newspaper | Washington Post
Date | 3.5.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | emojis, hashtags, politics, smartphone, Twitter
Summary | During his first 100 days, Trump tweeted a lot. His most used word in Twitter was "Great" (then: very, today, fake, news). His most common hashtag was "MAGA", the topic he most tweeted about was the media, and his favorite interjection is "Enojy!". Trump does not use a lot of emojis in his tweets, but his most common emoji is the American flag. Also, his most common hour for tweeting is 8am, and he mostly uses his iPhone.
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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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Emoji overload? Why we're ditching yellow smileys in favour of actual words
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 22.7.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis, language threat
Summary | The author explain why she hates emojis. She dislikes the fact that people can now type a word and replace it with the correspondant emoji. Some technologies have significantly improved our lives, but our emotional communication didn't need to be improved like that, according to the author. Words were fine; there is no need to regress back to "hieroglyphics".
Image Description | Photograph of a young woman smiling and looking at her phone.
Image Tags | female(s), smartphone
Are Emoticons And Emojis Destroying Our Language?
Newspaper | Huffington Post
Date | 13.8.2015
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | emojis, language threat
Summary | Emojis are popular, especially among young people. Older people are a little worried about that; emojis may harm our language. Two young female interviewees talk about the new set of emojis that just came out and how happy they are. Emoji is a universal language; everyone can understand it. What does that mean for the future of language? It seems that after years of progress, we're regressing back to the age of hieroglyphics.
Image Description | Digital image of four yellow-face emojis, and photograph of a passage of "Emoji Dick" in emoji.
Image Tags | emojis
Will emoji become a new language?
Newspaper | BBC News
Date | 13.10.2015
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis, grammar, language threat
Summary | Linguist Neil Cohn explains why emojis cannot be considered a new language and why they shouldn't be seen as a threat to language. Emojis don't have the same characteristics as other languages. Emojis are used to complement words, as we would use gestures along speech. Sometimes, people use long sequences of emojis to communicate, but they are not a language since they lack a grammar. Cohn talks about his book The Visual Language of Comics and explains what visual languages are. The visual language of comics does not work the same way as emojis; it's a language that has a grammar.
Image Description | Photograph of a series of emojis on a screen, photograph of a hand gesture, sreenshots of text message conversations with emojis, and photograph of a library of comic books.
Image Tags | emojis, hand(s), smartphone, text
Emojis: Are they changing how we communicate with each other?
Newspaper | CBC News
Date | 3.4.2016
Language | English
Country | Canada
Topic Tags | emojis, language threat, texting
Summary | A professor of new media studies often uses emojis in her texts. She says that they fill a gap in our communication, and that they are a language allowing people to express themselves well via text messages. Using emojis is also informal, fast, and creative. However, other people don't like emojis because they are replacing words. A retired university professor claims that she would rather see people express their feelings with words. The founder of "Emogi" says that emojis are changing (in a good way) the way we communicate. Indeed, emojis allow people to convey things that they wouldn't be able to convey with words alone. Emojis are not destroying language.
Image Description | Image of the 'face with tears of joy' emoji, screenshot of a chat conversation, series of Apple emojis, image of the 'poop emoji', and photograph of the Oxford Dictionary of English next to a cake representing the 'face with tears of joy' emoji.
Image Tags | dictionary, emojis
Can a GIF Work Better Than Words?
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 21.9.2015
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | emojis, GIFs, language threat, word/writing
Summary | An interviewee claims that using GIFs allows her to express complex feelings and emotions in a a couple seconds. GIFs are becoming more and more popular (i.e. on Facebook, Tumblr, etc.). Words and emojis are becoming old-fashioned.
Image Description | GIF representing three men looking at their smartphone.
Image Tags | gifs, male(s), smartphone
Emojis: The death of the written language?
Newspaper | CNBC
Date | 24.6.2015
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | emojis, language threat, misunderstanding, word/writing
Summary | People are using more and more emojis, which can be seen as a threat to written language. Indeed, people are starting to replace words with emojis in order to communicate a feeling or emotion, and according to the author of the article, this is worrying. Moreover, using emojis can lead to misunderstandings and miscommunication. Finally, if school start to incorporate emojis in their curriculum, it can be perceived as a regress back to hierogylphics.
Image Description | Getty image of a keyboard composed of emojis, and image of a series of Apple emojis representing diversity.
Image Tags | emojis, keyboard
Emojis on council tax bills: Council puts crying face on residents' statements
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 14.12.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis, language threat, law, politeness
Summary | Lambeth citizens are getting emojis on their tax correspondence with their local authorities. To be exact: crying face emojis. One resident tweeted her tax calculations with a crying face emoji next to het balance due. Many find this distasteful since many people struggle to pay their taxes and emojis are just inappropriate for government communication. Emojis are one of the fastest growing languages ever recorded in history and they have surpassed their precursors, Egyptian hieroglyphs, which took centuries to develop.
Image Description | Tweet showing the tax document with emoji.
Image Tags | emojis, Twitter
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