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In China, live-streaming apps soothe lonely souls and create fortunes
Newspaper | Los Angeles Times
Date | 5.1.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | threat, video communication
Summary | Many Chinese people are making a living off of livestreaming their daily lives. They share their thoughts with huge audiences on apps that allow for live streaming or just show themselves while eating their meals or respond to comments or give advice. One of the most successful of these personalities is a China-based American who reports of her experience in China from the perspective of an American. Despite great efforts by the Chinese government to censor internet content, this new entertainment genre is growing quickly in China.
Image Description | Female Chinese livestream personalities.
Image Tags | female(s), selfie, smartphone
This ends in wedding bells
Newspaper | Los Angeles Times
Date | 10.12.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | online dating
Summary | A man tells the story of how he met his now wife on an online dating app called Bumble. It is a little different from Tinder in that women need to do the first step and chat up a male match. They only get 24 hours to do that or the match is lost. Dating has moved to the digital sphere for many people nowadays.
Image Description | Illustration of a man and a woman on a bicycle.
Image Tags | female(s), male(s)
See how 'A Christmas Carol' and other classics are being translated into emoji
Newspaper | Los Angeles Times
Date | 14.12.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | childhood, emojis, translation
Summary | A woman is translating various children's literature into emojis. Not the whole text is replaced by emojis, only some words or parts of words. The books are supposed to be really great for beginning readers to encourage reading since the texts are made easier to understand by using a range of emojis. Not only the regular emojis available on all smartphones are used but also roughly 600 original emojis created by the author.
Image Description | A passage from the emoji-enhanced version of "A Christmas Carol".
Image Tags | emojis, text
Emojis are everywhere — including in their own Hollywood movie
Newspaper | Los Angeles Times
Date | 21.2.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | emojis, GIFs, marketing
Summary | Emojis have entered all aspects of our daily lives - our digital communication on various platforms and channels, comedians translate news into 'emoji news' as a joke, and now an animated emoji movie is being produced in Hollywood. The film industry has caught onto the emoji craze for marketing purposes as well. Making available special emojis for an upcomig movie has become a wide-spread part of pre-release marketing. The public relations staff of film marketing want to support fandoms in any way they can - be it with specialized emojis or GIFs.
Image Description | A screenshot of The Emoji Movie.
Image Tags | emojis
Snapchat's new rules for media
Newspaper | Los Angeles Times
Date | 24.1.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | Snapchat, threat, youth
Summary | One concerned mother is sueing Snapchat into reglementing media content on their Discover page so that minors do not see posts that are not age-appropriate for them. Many news media outlets that post on Snapchat's Discover page for large sums of advertising revenue use clickbait strategies involving overly sexual or violent content. The plaintiff wants Snapchat to shield minors from such content.
Image Description | Black and white image of a man doing a phonecall and looking at a Snapchat icon on a shop window.
Image Tags | male(s), smartphone, Snapchat
LAPD's watchdog rolls out smartphone app to share more information with public
Newspaper | Los Angeles Times
Date | 12.1.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | law, privacy
Summary | The LAPD has launched an app to keep citizens informed about local police matters without middle men. The app also enables users to file complaints or commendations about officers as well as direct them to the nearest police station. The LAPD decided to provide this service as a free app because many locals do not have home computers but most do have a smartphone.
Image Description | "Los Angeles police officers monitor the scene of a shooting in the Nickerson Gardens housing project in Watts last summer. (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)"
Image Tags | female(s), male(s)
Take a break from the election and read this story about emoji karaoke
Newspaper | Los Angeles Times
Date | 8.11.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | emojis
Summary | A convention for emojis (Emojicon) taking place in a San Francisco mall attracts lots of emoji professionals and afficionados. There they learn about the Unicode Consortium - the non-profit organization that introduces new emojis. Everybody can submit an emoji design to Unicode but only 70 emojis are accepted per year. Unicode also never deletes an already existing emoji, so they have to keep the number of new entries low. The convention is full of fun activities, 'emoji karaoke' being one of them. A room full of people listen to songs and try to transcribe them with emojis in real time.
Image Description | Photograph of a woman in a peach emoji costume. People with emoji balloons. An emoji caricature artist.
Image Tags | emojis, female(s), male(s)
Emojis as art? Thumbs up from museum
Newspaper | Los Angeles Times
Date | 26.10.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | emojis
Summary | Emojis have become part of most people’s everyday routine. The little images help users express feelings that they could never express like that in writing. They also help bridge the gap between face-to-face interaction and texting because linguists confirm that 70% of face-to-face communication depends on body language and other non-verbal cues. The MoMA in New York has recognized the significant impact that emojis have had on the world of design, marketing, and also art and are hosting an exhibit with the original set of emojis from 1999.
Image Description | “The original set of emoji, designed by Shigetaka Kurita, and released to Japanese cellphone users in 1999 — now acquired by MoMA. (Museum of Modern Art).”
Image Tags | emojis
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