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Can't find the right emoji? AI app analyses your message to suggest the perfect memes, emoticons and gifs while you type
Newspaper | Mail Online
Date | 14.6.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, emojis, GIFs, meme, texting
Summary | A new app called Dango uses artificial intelligence to suggest the most appropriate emojis, GIFs, or memes you can use. Thanks to AI, the app analyzes the meaning of your text messages.
Image Description | Screenshot of Dango's chat bubble, photograph of a series of emojis on a screen, and chart explaining how Dango's neural system works.
Image Tags | chart, emojis, 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
Jetzt kommt die Sticker-Schwemme
(Now comes the sticker flood)
Newspaper | Tages-Anzeiger
Date | 15.11.2016
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | abbreviations, emojis, marketing, texting
Summary | People use emojis to express non-verbal emotions in their text messages. Stickers are more elaborate emojis - larger and there is more of a selection. One can even buy thematic sticker sets. This has become a very profitable industry in Japan.
Image Description | A series of images of that represent the commodification of emojis; also Facebook stickers and Kaomojis (Shruggie with punctuation marks).
Image Tags | emojis
"Die Flut der Zeichen ist enorm"
("The flood of signs is enormous")
Newspaper | Stuttgarter Zeitung
Date | 27.9.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | emojis, misunderstanding, texting
Summary | The production of signs is in a stage of unprecedented proliferation - everyone partakes in textual production online and so the amount of meaningful signs out there is larger than ever. This is quite interesting with respect to emojis because we have only just started coming up with conventions of their use. We are still negotiating how emoji use can be codified. It is common to think, for instance, that a response without emoji to a message with emoji indicates negative feelings.
Image Description | Emojis and hand gestures.
Image Tags | emojis, hand(s), male(s)
Les émojis, ces drôles de petites bêtes virtuelles
(Emojis, those funny little virtual creatures)
Newspaper | La Tribune de Genève
Date | 6.2.2016
Language | French
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | emojis, language threat, research/study, texting
Summary | Emojis are becoming a “global” phenomenon. For example, Facebook recently introduced a set of emojis, companies use them in their advertisement campaigns, and some people would like to create a “language” with emojis. Should we fear an impoverishment of “traditional languages”? Some linguists claim that emojis do not replace words but serve as complements in our communication. They can substitute a gesture or an intonation that we usually have in our oral exchanges. Another study concluded that text messages are not a threat to orthography, and that we have always used images to express ourselves.
Image Description | Digital image representing different emojis: sick emoji, cowboy emoji, tongue-out emoji, winking eye emoji etc.
Image Tags | emojis
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