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Wege aus der Peinlichkeit
(Exit ways out of embarrassment)
Newspaper | die Weltwoche
Date | 28.9.2017
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | emojis, gender, misunderstanding, online dating, politeness, research/study, texting, youth
Summary | Emojis have entered our communication with no turning back but using them is a minefield of misunderstanding. It is especially risky in the initial stages of texting with a love interest: studies show that people tend to imitate the communication patterns of their interlocutor if they are in love with them. Because women are more communicative than men, they tend to be the ones who are imitated in such a scenario. But men, beware! Do not go overboard with your heart emojis, it's too girly. One should however also refrain from making overly abrupt changes to ones emoji habits as it can seem distanced and elitist if one stops to use emojis altogether.
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Techie teens help bridge generational digital gap
Newspaper | Washington Post
Date | 16.5.2017
Language | English
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | digitized education, emojis, gender, texting, youth
Summary | A grandmother texted her grandson a series of emojis to ask him how the pets were and how the hockey game was. Most of the seniors are not as tech-savvy as she is. As a result, three high school teenage girls decided to create a new organization called GTG Tech in order to help older people get more familiar with new media. They hold free training lessons once a month. Most of the seniors seeking help are women. The girls and older people think that the intergenerational exchange is very rich.
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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.
Wir wollen zeigen, dass wir gut Englisch können
(We want to show that we are good at English)
Newspaper | 20 Minuten
Date | 29.4.2016
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | anglicisms, code-switching, emojis, texting, WhatsApp, youth
Summary | Young people increasingly communicate in English with each other (especially digitally). This has become a way to imitate their idols, who are largely English-speakers, and to exclude adults from their communicative code. Linguists are delighted by young people's creativity; they use different languages and emojis available to them even though their competence may not be perfect.
Image Description | Series of four screenshots of WhatsAspp conversations showing English/Swiss-German code-switching.
Image Tags | WhatsApp
A table tout le monde!
(Dinner time everybody!)
Newspaper | Le Matin Dimanche
Date | 30.3.2014
Language | French
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | emojis, texting, WhatsApp, youth
Summary | The author talks about her experiences at home; she created a dinner schedule so that her kids would notify her of whether or not they would be home for dinner. But the kids would never notify her in advance; they would text her at 19:00 saying they would not come home. Thus, one of the kids created a WhatsApp group for the family. It's fun! There are "ribs emojis" and "spaghetti emojis". They laugh a lot on WhatsApp, so she doesn't even realize that she is eating dinner by herself.
Image Description | Photograph of the author of the article.
Le monde se parle désormais en émojis
(The world now speaks emoji)
Newspaper | Le Matin
Date | 3.5.2015
Language | French
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | emojis, youth
Summary | The use of emojis is a global phenomenon; everyone uses them to express actions and emotions. There was a time when we only had words to exchange; now we also have emojis. The “heart emoji” was the “word” used the most on the Internet during the year. Emojis were first mostly used by young people, but now everyone uses them. They also take several forms and portray the world’s diversity.
Image Description | Digital image of emojis: tears of joy emoji, heart-shapes eyes emoji, face throwing a kiss emoji, and "diversity" emojis
Image Tags | emojis
“Pic speech”: le parler ado
(“Pic speech": teen talk)
Newspaper | La Tribune de Genève
Date | 30.5.2015
Language | French
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | emojis, Facebook, language threat, selfie, Snapchat, social media, WhatsApp, youth
Summary | Nowadays teenagers mostly express themselves through visual modes (e.g. Instagram, WhatsApp, Facebook, Snapchat) and thus create their own language: “pic speech”. Images do not necessarily replace words; young people claim that words are still important since they contextualize images. Regarding emojis, teenagers use them for their “affective” purpose. This new language is a way for youth to become autonomous and emancipate themselves.
Image Description | Series of screenshots of different teenagers' snaps (selfie + Face Paint feature).
Image Tags | male(s), Snapchat
Antiquiert chatten
(An antiquated chat)
Newspaper | Tages-Anzeiger
Date | 11.11.2015
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | emojis, school, WhatsApp, youth
Summary | Two Swiss high school students adapted the antique myth of Aeneas and Dido into a WhatsApp chat. A school assignment for their Latin class asked students to adapt ancient stories into other media. The two students reinterpreted the storyline as a WhatsApp chat between Dido and Aeneas in Latin with a lot of dramatic language (e.g. indicate shouting with all capital letters or word length with letter repetitions, and communicate emotions with emojis).
Image Description | Screenshot of a WhatsApp chat in Latin with words, emojis, and images.
Image Tags | emojis, WhatsApp
On rigole toujours mais on ne LOL plus
(We still laugh but we don't LOL anymore)
Newspaper | 20 minutes
Date | 10.8.2015
Language | French
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | emojis, Facebook, research/study, youth
Summary | According to a Facebook study investigating the different ways to translate “laugh” online, the use of “lol” is outdated. People prefer using “haha” or “hehe”, and 34% of participants would rather use emojis, especially young people. Only 2% of participants still use “lol”, and they are a little bit older; their average age is 30.
Image Description | Digital image of the "face with tears of joy" emoji.
Image Tags | emojis
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