Number of Posts: 51
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Google proposes new set of female emojis to promote equality
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 11.5.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis, gender
Summary | Google proposed new emojis representing gender diversity. The new set of emojis includes for instance female engineers, chemists, plumbers, and farmers. Millions of people around the world use emojis, so it is important to represent people accurately.
Image Description | Images of the new set of female emojis.
Image Tags | emojis, female(s)
Am I using this emoji right, or did I accidentally just sext someone?
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 17.2.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis, misunderstanding, sexting
Summary | The Daily Mail released a list of emojis with double meanings. Some seemingly innocent emojis might in fact have another X-rated meaning. For instance, the mailbox emoji can mean "sex". You can use any emoji to talk about sex, but some are being used more than others. For example, the eggplant emoji is now widely accepted as a way to represent a penis. Most emojis can have a double meaning; they can be interpreted at face value or mean something completely different.
Image Description | Photograph of a man scratching his head, Twitter video of a man explaing the hidden meanings of emojis, and screenshots of tweets.
Image Tags | emojis, male(s), Twitter
The Emoji Bible has arrived ... and (face with halo emoji) has yet to declare it (OK hand sign emoji)
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 30.5.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis, translation
Summary | The Bible has been translated into emoji. It includes 3,300 pages and is intended for millennials.
Image Description | Screenshots of tweets from @BibleEmoji
Image Tags | emojis, Twitter
Water pistol emoji replaces revolver as Apple enters gun violence debate
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 2.8.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis
Summary | Apple decided to replace the gun emoji with a water gun emoji after several shootings that took place in the US. People commented on the change and said that changing the emoji was not going to resolve the gun violence problem.
Image Description | Water gun emoji and gun emoji, and screenshots of tweets.
Image Tags | emojis, Twitter
New emojis to include breastfeeding, a hijab and the lotus position
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 12.11.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis
Summary | 56 new emojis will be released (e.g. bearded man, sandwich, face vomiting, woman wearing a hijab). However, there is still a lack of redhead emojis.
Image Description | Different versions of the hijab emoji, and screenshots of tweets about the hijab emoji and the lack of ginger emojis.
Image Tags | emojis, Twitter
We all love to (face with tears of joy emoji) and the French are (broken heart emoji): what we learned about emojis at SXSW
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 13.3.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis
Summary | SwiftKey found that 70% of emojis are used to express a positive feeling; this might be because we want to present a positive image of ourselves to other people. Linguist Gretchen McCulloch said that emojis are the “fourth quadrant” of communication -writing has now an informal part. The author of the article then goes on to present facts and numbers about emojis that were presented at SXSW.
Image Description | Photograph of a screen with 4 rows of emojis,
Image Tags | emojis
Eight of the most pointless emojis, from (curly loop emoji) to (orange diamond emoji)
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 8.1.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis
Summary | Emojis are everywhere and many people uses this visual language every day. However, some of the pictograms are useless (e.g. hole, levitating man in suit, curly loop, anger, large orange diamond, pager, round pin, and up-side down face.
Image Description | Chart with 176 emojis, and pictures of the useless emojis.
Image Tags | emojis
Sign of the times: London company advertises for 'emoji translator'
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 14.12.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis, translation
Summary | A translation company in London is looking for an emoji translator to help deal with issues related to the world's fastest-growing language. The field of emoji translation is booming and nowadays, softwares dominate the field. However, softwares can't recognize cultural differences in emoji usage.
Image Description | Digital image representing 8 emojis
Image Tags | emojis
'I'm sitting next to a weirdo on the bus' and other true meanings of emoji
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 27.7.2015
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis, misunderstanding
Summary | The author explains the different meanings/uses of 9 emojis: smirking face, pensive face, nail polish, new moon with face, speak-no-evil monkey, person with folded hands, face with medical mask, runner, and hundred point symbol.
Image Description | Images of the 9 different emojis
Image Tags | emojis
Everything's peachy as Apple restores emoji's 'bum' features
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 16.11.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis
Summary | With the new iOS update, Apple users saw that the peach emoji (that looked like a bum) changed into an emoji that looked more like a "real" peach. After people complained, Apple finally replaced the new emoji with the old peach-bum emoji. Since there is no other emoji that users can use to represent a bum, the peach emoji is important. People also use the eggplant emoji to represent a penis.
Image Description | Photograph of a real peach, and image of the different versions of the peach emoji.
Image Tags | emojis
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