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For this company, online surveillance leads to profit in Washington’s suburbs
Newspaper | Washington Post
Date | 10.9.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | emojis, privacy, social media, threat
Summary | Babel Street is a startup that uses online surveillance; they try to get private information from online platforms in order to catch cybercriminals. For instance, police departments might use the service provided by the company in their investigations and scan posts online. Experts try to track dangerous criminals while analyzing posts in more than 200 languages, including the emoji language. Emoji has actually been a challenge for analysts. Another challenge the company faces is to make sure sure it doesn't violate people's privacy.
Image Description | Photograph of a man standing in a news room in front of several TVs, and two other people.
Image Tags | female(s), male(s)
How emoji are taking over the world
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 3.8.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis, threat
Summary | Paul Kendall talks about the rise of emojis and their popularity. emojitracker.com is a website displaying a grid of 845 emojis; every time a user tweets an emoji, the emoji lights up. Young people (under 30) communicate through emojis nowadays. Even marketers use them to appeal to their customers. Emojis are useful and precise, they allow users to communicate non-verbal cues that are essential. People should not be concerned about the rise of emojis; they are here to stay, but they are not a language.
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Liebesgeschichte, Heldenreise, Flachwitze, Kacke
(Love story, a hero's journey, flat jokes, poop)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 2.8.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | childhood, emojis, marketing, smartphone, texting, threat, youth
Summary | The new emoji movie for children is an animated film starring emojis as its main protagonists. Critics find it quite distasteful because it is full of casual advertising for major tech companies and because it does not address the danger of the internet at all. In Textopolis, the world in which emojis live, alphabetic letters are depicted as elderly with walking canes because the youth does not use letters anymore.
Image Description | Screenshots from the Emoji movie.
Image Tags | emojis, female(s), male(s)
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.
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Sag noch einmal Wasserpistole!
(Say water pistol one more time!)
Newspaper | Die Zeit
Date | 2.8.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | emojis, politics, threat
Summary | Apple will replace the pistol emoji with a water pistol emoji as a political statement. Apple has been known to take political sides but it is questionable whether censoring guns will help any cause, especially because the bomb, sword, and knife emojis are not being removed.
Image Description | A photoshopped scene from Pulp Fiction showing Samuel L. Jackson pointing a water pistol emoji.
Image Tags | emojis, male(s)
Emoji: Rolle vorwärts
(Emoji: rolling forward)
Newspaper | Die Zeit
Date | 16.2.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | emojis, Facebook, threat
Summary | A bunch of new emojis have been included in the latest Apple update: the taco, a lion, and the eye-roll emoji which is the most popular of them all. In our age where online language is dominated by hyperbole, that is quite calm for a change. Simultaneously, Facebook enhances the like function with six emotions depicted by emojis.
Image Description | A bunch of eye-roll emojis with a few different emojis in between.
Image Tags | emojis
Emoji: are they a force for good?
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 8.8.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis, threat
Summary | Emojis are everywhere and becoming more and more popular. Emoji was even named the fastest-growing language in the UK. However, some people wonder whether they represent the end of our language and civilization.
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Frenchman jailed for three months for sending ex-girlfriend gun emoji
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 31.3.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis, threat
Summary | A French man was sentenced to three months in jail because he sent his girlfriend a gun emoji, which was seen as a death threat. In the US, people have also been arrested for sending similar emojis.
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Quand les émotions mènent le bal
(When emotions are leading the way)
Newspaper | Le Temps
Date | 9.5.2017
Language | French
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | emojis, Facebook, privacy, social media, threat
Summary | Nowadays, people don't take the time to "think" and go from one emotion to another very quickly, especially on social media. For instance, Facebook introduced its "reaction" buttons. Today, it seems that a laughing emoji is worth a long speech. Facebook can also gather its users' personal information thanks to the reaction buttons. Our communication is now based on emotions, which can be dangerous.
Image Description | Cartoon representing four people chatting; one of the speech bubbles includes a series of different emojis.
Image Tags | emojis
Zurück zur Bildersprache
(Back to pictoral language)
Newspaper | Berliner Zeitung
Date | 14.10.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | autocorrect, emojis, texting, threat
Summary | Thanks to the new iOS update, autocorrect now incorporates suggestions for appropriate emojis. If someone types something about a car, for instance, the little red car emoji is suggested instead of the word "car". This is quite annoying and usually does not work well because the coverage of available emojis is too small.
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