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Le gardien du temple des émojis
(The guardian of the emoji temple)
Newspaper | Le Temps
Date | 21.6.2017
Language | French
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | censorship, diversity, emojis
Summary | Mark Davis (President of the Unicode Consortium), who lives in Zurich, talks about emojis. Anyone can submit new emoji proposals; but the proposal needs to be convincing. The Consortium has been trying to be more progressive, which is why people can now use same-sex couple emojis, or a hijab emoji. The Consortium does not accept any brand emojis nor famous people emojis (although people would like to see Jesus and Justin Bieber). Keith Winstein claims that nobody should have the right to tell other people which images they can or cannot use.
Image Description | Photograph of Mark Davis
Image Tags | male(s)
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).
Image Description | N/A
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
Das Problem mit dem ;-)
(The problem with ;-))
Newspaper | Appenzeller Zeitung
Date | 3.2.2017
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | email, emojis, misunderstanding, politeness
Summary | First emojis have appeared in official writing: the Norwegien government included emojis in one of their letters. Norwegian linguists are critical of this saying that we need to establish rules about emoji use first because they are easily misunderstood. Emojis have entered our everyday communication so profoundly that we now read even workplace emails without emojis as rude.
Image Description | Getty image of a Macbook keyboard with emoji keys.
Image Tags | computer/laptop, emojis
Viele neue Emojis
(Many new emojis)
Newspaper | Appenzeller Zeitung
Date | 27.6.2017
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis
Summary | Unicode Consortium are releasing a new set with new emojis. Among them are the female hijab emoji, various food emojis, a vomiting emoji, fantastical creatures like zombies and vampires, and many others.
Image Description | N/A
Lachen, bis es wehtut
(Laugh till it hurts)
Newspaper | Tages-Anzeiger
Date | 7.6.2017
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | emojis
Summary | The laughing tears emoji is being used inflationally. We all remember a few special moments in our lives when we laughed so hard that we had to wipe tears off our face. This special sensation is being thrown around digitally usually accompagnying mediocre jokes at best.
Image Description | N/A
Geldstrafe für irreführende Emoji
(Fee for misleading emojis)
Newspaper | Appenzeller Zeitung
Date | 24.5.2017
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | emojis, law, misunderstanding
Summary | A man in Isreal sued a woman over misleading emoji use. The woman had expressed interest in the man's house for rent with the use of many emojis such as the Champagne bottle and then did not follow through with renting the house. The court decided that the woman would have to pay a fee equivalent to CHF 2000.
Image Description | N/A
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.
Emoji-Engpass bei Coop
(Emoji shortages at Coop)
Newspaper | Sonntagszeitung
Date | 10.4.2017
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | emojis, marketing
Summary | Coop is offering little plastic emoji figurines as customer gifts and collectables. The demand has become so great that the emoji toys were out of stock at times.
Image Description | N/A
Lacht er noch oder weint er schon?
(Is he still laughing or is he crying already?)
Newspaper | Appenzeller Zeitung
Date | 5.4.2017
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis, misunderstanding
Summary | Emojis are centrally organized in the Unicode Consortium based in Silicon Valley, CA. They decide which emojis are made available on all devices. They usually accept emojis that are globally significant, like for example the new hijab emoji. Even though they try to make their emoijis more diverse, they still get criticized for giving all male emojis short hair and all female emojis long hair. Many Japanese people say that Westerners misunderstand many of the emotive emojis and misuse them.
Image Description | Emojis.
Image Tags | emojis
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