Number of Posts: 18
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Facebook's 'reactions': What's to not like?
Newspaper | Washington Post
Date | 25.2.2016
Language | English
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | emojis, Facebook
Summary | Facebook has just released its new reaction buttons, and not everyone is happy about them. When is appropriate to use each "reaction"? The article describes each of the six reaction buttons and their supposed use.
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Après mourir de rire, on adore rire aux larmes...
(After laughing out loud we love laughing tears...)
Newspaper | Le Matin
Date | 16.1.2016
Language | French
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | emojis
Summary | The acronyms "lol" and "mdr" are disppearing and are being replaced by emoticons. Moreover, The Oxford Dictionary decided to choose an emoticon as word of year (face with tears of joy emoji).
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Das neue iMessage strapaziert die Nerven
(The new iMessage gets on my nerves)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 15.9.2016
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | emojis, language threat, texting, word/writing
Summary | The updated iMessage has tons of new functions. It suggests appropriate emojis to replace words of a message, it now has sticker packages like the Facebook Messenger and allows for text messages to be animated. Users can also send short handwritten Messages - that it if they can still write by hand. All of the updates combined make for a much more obnoxious iMessage service.
Image Description | Images of iPhones using iMessage.
Image Tags | smartphone
Täglich neue Inhalte generieren
(Generate new content every day)
Newspaper | Schweizer Bank
Date | 16.12.2016
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | emojis, Instagram, marketing, Snapchat, social media
Summary | SIX's communication specialist has taken a university certificate course in social media management. It is very useful in highlighting the uses and risks of corporate social media use. Her job consists of creating original content on multiple social media profiles of her company. She has organized emoji battles and uploaded drone films of corporate events. One downside of the cetrificate course, she says, was that it never mentioned Snapchat or Instagram even though those are the most popular platforms among digital natives.
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Ein Update für Emoji-Fans
(An update for emoji fans)
Newspaper | Tages-Anzeiger
Date | 13.12.2016
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | emojis
Summary | The new Apple update includes 70 new emojis entered by the Unicode Consortium: various new animals, vegetables, bacon, doner kebab, a scary clown, a pinocchio nose, as well as a facepalm emoji. Thanks to the new pregnant woman emoji, pregnancy announcements can now be made with a minimal character count.
Image Description | Keystone image of hands holding an iPhone and another iPhone lying next to it.
Image Tags | hand(s), smartphone
Jetzt kommt die Sticker-Schwemme
(The sticker flood is on its way)
Newspaper | Tages-Anzeiger
Date | 15.11.2016
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | abbreviations, emojis, Facebook, language threat, marketing, social media
Summary | Emoticons (f.i. ":-D") and abbreviations (f.i. "LOL") have trickled down from "geek speak" and established themselves in the mainstream. Emojis are nowadays ever present in our digital communication as well as in other arenas such as film or advertising. Now various social media platforms, among them Facebook, offer users various palettes of stickers. They are larger versions of emojis and are sent as an image file rather than included on the keyboard as a letter. Because many sticker palettes need to be purchased, a whole economy is beginning to form: The Japanese messaging app Line has sold over $250 mio worth of stickers last year. We do not need to fear that emojis and co. will replace language as we know it.
Image Description | Commodified emojis in various forms (as balls, as tattoos, as bed sheets, as food, on clothing, as masks, etc.) and Facebook messenger chats using/purchasing sticker collections.
Image Tags | emojis, Facebook, male(s), social media
Die Qual der Wahl
(The agony of choice)
Newspaper | Sonntagszeitung
Date | 9.10.2016
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | emojis
Summary | A new iOS app called "Emoji" allows users to vote on which new emojis should become available. Front runners right now are the shush emoji where the index finger is held up to the shushing mouth and the fingers crossed emoji (index and middle finger crossed).
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Décoder le langage Emoji
(Decoding the emoji language )
Newspaper | Le Matin
Date | 22.1.2016
Language | French
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | emojis, misunderstanding
Summary | Emojis are everywhere. They are used to symbolize emotions, but their meaning is not always clear. In the game "The Great Emoji Challenge", people have to decode messages in emoji. They can win up to one million dollars.
Image Description | Smiling emoji, and money bag emoji
Image Tags | emojis
On oublie toujours une minorité
(We always forget a minority)
Newspaper | Le Matin
Date | 14.5.2016
Language | French
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | emojis, gender
Summary | Today's emojis don't really represent women in a fair way (dancer, princess, or grandmother). Therefore, Google is going to include peasant women, teachers or doctors, for example. But since the idea is to better represent minorities, perhaps the Bogdanov brothers and Conchita Wurst will complain about the lack of "mutant" emojis.
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Apple se mouille
(Apple gets wet)
Newspaper | Le Matin
Date | 15.9.2016
Language | French
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | emojis
Summary | With its iOS 10 update, Apple removed the gun emoji, and replaced it with a water gun. So now violence has of course been eradicated, no one has been killed by a gun, and everyone loves each other. Thanks to Apple, corpses have been replaced by wet T-shirt contests.
Image Description | Images of the gun emoji and the water gun emoji
Image Tags | emojis
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