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So unterschiedlich kann man Liebe per SMS gestehen
(There are many ways to confess one's love via text message)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 12.10.2015
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | abbreviations, emojis, punctuation, texting
Summary | There is a lot of ways in which one can write "I love you" in a text message and all of them mean something slightly different. Punctiation can transform the whole tone of the statement. Abbreviation of the three infamous words can make it less serious - which can be a good or a bad thing depending on context. Emojis are complicated and ambiguous.
Image Description | Photograph of heart ballons with letters flying into the sky.
Bilder aus Emojis bauen
(Building pictures out of emojis)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 6.3.2015
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | emojis
Summary | On emoji.ink users can build their own emojis, or rather, build pictures or scenes out of a large collection of emojis. A lot of fun can be had with this: one can design mosters with several heads or a scene of a penguin looking at a traffic sign. The creations can be saved and used later on. We have come quite far since the days of having to build a smiley emoticon out of three or more punctuation signs.
Image Description | Collection of emojis.
Image Tags | emojis
Aufgefallen
(Caught the eye)
Newspaper | St. Galler Tagblatt
Date | 25.2.2015
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis
Summary | Emojis now offer smileys and hand gestures in various skin colors. This innovation is coming from Apple. There is also a rumor going around online that emojis depicting same-sex couples with children will be included.
Image Description | N/A
Digitales Leben: Der Boom der Emojis
(Digital life: The boom of emojis)
Newspaper | Handelszeitung
Date | 22.5.2015
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | emojis, marketing, smartphone
Summary | Emojis can no longer be avoided. People from all ranks of life are using them. Companies even use them in marketing and have to regulate their use; the eggplant emoji is inappropriate. Every smartphone has a few hundred emojis available and an app exists that lets users communicate with emojis only – it is called Emojli.
Image Description | Digital image representing different emojis.
Image Tags | emojis
Eine literarische Revolution ;-)
(A literary revolution ;-))
Newspaper | Tages-Anzeiger
Date | 10.2.2015
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | emojis, language threat, translation
Summary | Originating in the late 1990s in Japan, emojis have gained huge popularity worldwide. Some say they are destroying our language, others use emojis for poetic endeavors. Fred Benenson has for instance re-written the classic story of Moby Dick using emojis. The project was crowd funded and is called “Emoji Dick”. Apple has recently put into action an online petition calling for more ethnic diversity among emojis.
Image Description | Digital image representing 180 different emojis.
Image Tags | emojis
Sags doch per Emoji
(Say it with emojis)
Newspaper | Tages-Anzeiger
Date | 21.3.2015
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | emojis, misunderstanding
Summary | Adullts also use emojis. Emojis are cutesy little colorful symbols depicting simplified facial expressions, animals, or objects. Thematic packages of moving emojis can be bought. Emojis can be used to adorn messages or to replace written text altogether. Because their meanings are multivalent, they can easily be misunderstood, which results in awkwardness.
Image Description | Photograph of the author of the article.
Image Tags | female(s)
Kritiken
(Critiques)
Newspaper | die Weltwoche
Date | 19.11.2015
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | emojis, word/writing
Summary | This year, the Oxford English Dictionary has proclaimed a non-word the word of the year: the laughing emoji with tears of joy. The reason why a non-word has been chosen as word of the year is that emojis have become a significant part of contemporary communication and that they overcome language barriers.
Image Description | N/A
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
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