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Using emojis makes other people think you are incompetent, research finds
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 14.8.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis
Summary | According to a study, people should be careful when using emojis (especially at work), because they can make you seem incompetent. Indeed, a smiley face is not a smile, and using emojis can have an impact on your career. The findings show that smiling emojis are not perceived as "warm" and can be seen as sign of incompetency.
Image Description | Photograph of a hand holding a smartphone displaying a series of emojis, and digital image of a crazy emoji.
Image Tags | emojis, hand(s), smartphone
From false-teeth smileys to memory pills: Gran inspires OAP emojis to cater for the older generation
Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 29.10.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis
Summary | Older people don't always find emojis that express what they feel. Diane Hill is 56 and she decided to create new emojis that reflect older people's lives. Some of the emojis include: 'spending the kids' inheritance', 'memory pills', or 'aches and pains'.
Image Description | Photograph of Diane Hill, and four "elderly" emojis.
Apple shows off new emojis coming to your iPhone - including breastfeeding, hijabi and 'mind blown'
Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 18.7.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis
Summary | New Apple emojis will soon be arriving: they include for instance a breastfeeding, hijab, bearded man, face vomiting, and mind blown emojis.
Image Description | Digital images of the new emojis.
Image Tags | emojis
This 'grimace face' emoji is causing awkward conversations - make sure you're using it correctly
Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 15.4.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis, misunderstanding
Summary | The grimace face emoji does not look the same way on every platform, which can lead to some misunderstandings if people are using different devices.
Image Description | Grimace face emoji, 8 different grimace face emojis from different platforms, screenshots of conversations, and chart about emotion ranking
Image Tags | chart, emojis, text
Redheads could FINALLY be getting a ginger emoji after long campaign for equality
Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 23.1.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis
Summary | At a meeting next week, Apple will discuss the introduction of a new Ginger emoji. They will see for instance whether they will introduce a new person with red hair or custom hair tags to existing emojis.
Image Description | Photograph of a hand holding a smartphone and choosing a ginger emoji, digital images representing various redhead emojis as well as other emojis
Image Tags | emojis, hand(s), smartphone
Headscarf emojis not an option – but teenage girl fixes that
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 14.9.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis
Summary | Rayouf Alhumedhi is a 15-year-old teenage girl who lives in Germany. After noticing that there was no hijab emoji to represent Muslim women, she sent a proposal to Unicode. When she was asked why she wears a headscarf, she said that she actually feels liberated; she can choose what she wants to cover, and this way people see her past her beauty and for her knowledge.
Image Description | Five emojis representing different options for the "headscarf emoji"
Image Tags | emojis, female(s)
Teen job hopeful rejected with a smiley face text
Newspaper | Daily Mail (UK)
Date | 10.2.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis, texting
Summary | A teenage girl received a text with a crying with laughter emoji after a job interview. The text said "It's a no", followed by the emoji. The girl said that the use of the laughing face emoji was rude and unprofessional.
Image Description | N/A
BBC celebrates the Bard...with emoji website!
Newspaper | Daily Mail (UK)
Date | 22.1.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis, language threat
Summary | The BBC wants to introduce Shakespeare to the Millennials while using emojis. However, people have been complaining and accusing the BBC of dumbing down Shakespeare's work for young people. On the website that the BBC launched, when people choose an emoji, one of Shakespeare's quotes appear. The quote is supposed to express the same feeling as the emoji.
Image Description | N/A
Court first as judge uses smiley face emoji in ruling
Newspaper | Daily Mail (UK)
Date | 15.9.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis
Summary | A judge included an emoji in an official court judgement related to two children.
Image Description | N/A
Twitter left off Trump table in spat over Hillary emoji
Newspaper | Metro
Date | 16.12.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis, politics, Twitter
Summary | Because Twitter refused to create a crooked Hillary emoji, the company was left out of a meeting with Donald Trump.
Image Description | N/A
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