Number of Posts: 13
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Taking poetic license with AI personalities
Newspaper | Washington Post
Date | 7.4.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, emojis, gender, research/study
Summary | Artificial intelligence assistants are now being creatively enganced by educated and professional writers and poets so as to make their conversation appear more human-like (f.i. by using emojis) and their personalities more authentic. Polls have shown that users prefer female voices for AI assistants and most companies have acted accordingly. Microsoft has however pre-empted reinforcing stereotypes about female assistants by limiting the number of apologies and self-deprecating comments for their AI assistant Cortana.
Image Description | Image of a meeting of professional writers working in AI at Microsoft.
Image Tags | computer/laptop, female(s), male(s)
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)
"Ich bin dein Sohn!"
("I am your son!")
Newspaper | Die Zeit
Date | 6.4.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | childhood, emojis, texting, YouTube
Summary | It is interesting to watch children develop a texting personality. As they grow up with new media, they use them quite naturally. They easily incorporate emojis, use audio messages, or share YouTube videos. Texting humor is also learned quite automatically.
Image Description | Image of a boy holding a smartphone.
Image Tags | male(s), smartphone
Muslimische Smileys
(Muslim smileys)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 18.3.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis
Summary | An app with muslim-themed emojis is now available. The emojis can however only be sent as image files and not integrated in the keyboard. They would have to be included by the Unicode Consortium for that to be possible and an Australian is already petitioning to Unicode to include muslim emojis. Meanwhile, Indonesia wants to force Unicode to block all emojis depicting homosexuality within the country because it clashes with their Islamic morals and values.
Image Description | The Muslim Emojis in use.
Image Tags | emojis, female(s), male(s)
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
Watch out! Emojis may be taking over your life
Newspaper | Times of India
Date | 15.7.2016
Language | English
Country | India
Topic Tags | emojis
Summary | Emoji is becoming a new global language and everyone is using it. Now, people simply use visual signs to express their feelings. Emojis are efficient because they complement words, and they allow people to fill in a gap, which is like using gestures along speech. The majority of people think that using emojis is not professional.
Image Description | Photograph of a woman with an emoji head, photograph of a woman with a red lip emoji/sticker, and photograph of a man with a yellow balloon head.
Image Tags | emojis, female(s), male(s)
"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)
Das sind die beliebtesten Fotos auf Instagram 2016
(These are the most popular photographs on Instagram 2016)
Newspaper | Hamburger Abendblatt
Date | 1.12.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | emojis, Instagram
Summary | The undefeated queen of Instagram is Selena Gomez. She has the most followers: over one million. Many of the most-liked pictures on Instagram are hers. Another extremely popular picture on Instagram is of Christiano Ronaldo kissing the trophy of the European football championship. The general mood on Instagram is positive with the most popular emojis being hearts and the most popular hashtags revolving around happiness.
Image Description | Various popular Instagram posts.
Image Tags | emojis, female(s), Instagram, male(s)
Trump, Twitter und die Anti-Hillary-Emojis
(Trump, Twitter, and anti-Hillary emojis)
Newspaper | Spiegel Online
Date | 15.12.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | emojis, politics, Twitter
Summary | Twitter refused to include a "crooked Hillary" emoji that Donald Trump requested during the election campaign. There is precedent where Twitter created included original emojis in connection with specific hashtags for advertising purposes: for instance for films or for both the Democratic and Republican party. It is unclear why they refused to work with Trump but now Twitter has not been invited to a Silicon Valley summit hosted by president elect Donald Trump.
Image Description | Image of Donald Trump and others in a meeting.
Image Tags | male(s)
'I don't think people are going to talk': Kanye West says everyone will communicate through emojis in the future as 'words get in the way'
Newspaper | Mail Online
Date | 21.11.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis, language threat
Summary | Kanye West thinks that people won't talk anymore in the future; they will use other (visual) means such as signs, emojis, or body language.
Image Description | Photograph of Kanye West and Kim Kardashian.
Image Tags | female(s), male(s)
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