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Es lebe das Kopftuch-Smiley
(Long live the hijab emoji)
Newspaper | Berliner Kurier
Date | 14.11.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis
Summary | A 15 year old girl from Berlin submitted a hijab emoji proposal to the Unicode Consortium who are in charge of adding new emojis. Low and behold, the proposal was accepted and now there will be an emoji of a smiling woman in a hijab on phones all around the world to represent the 550 million women wearing hijabs. The proposal had been very popular on social media so the wide support certainly helped.
Image Description | Hijab emoji proposal document (7 pages).
Image Tags | emojis, female(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)
Guten Morgen
(Good morning)
Newspaper | Aachener Zeitung
Date | 13.12.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | emojis, misunderstanding
Summary | Everyone has seen them already - the pancake faces with many different facial expressions. Some emojis are however easily misunderstood. The grinning emoji can for instance be misinterpreted as grinding his teeth and the kissing emoji has been misunderstood as whistling. Maybe it is better not to use them in the light of all this confusion.
Image Description | Grinning emoji and kissing emoji.
Image Tags | emojis
Diese neuen Emojis gibt‘s jetzt auf dem iPhone
(These new emojis are now available on iPhones)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 14.12.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis, gender
Summary | Another new set of emojis is now available since the new iPhone update. New emojis include the facepalm, a shrug emoji, an avocado, as well as new professions such as astronauts or scientists - as men and women. Especially the facepalm was highly anticipated by many people.
Image Description | Collages of the new emojis.
Image Tags | emojis
Sechs Chat-Fehler, die dir schaden, ohne dass du es merkst
(Six chat mistakes you are making that you don't even know about)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 16.12.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | emojis, misunderstanding, research/study
Summary | Using emojis can be tricky. Firstly, they do not look the same on all devices. This can lead to misunderstandings because we interpret a lot in other people's emoji use. Researchers also advise people to use few if any emojis in work-related communication. One should entirely abstain from using emojis when communication with a superior or employee. One should also be mindful of how often one changes the profile picture and what one's profile picture depicts.
Image Description | A Getty image of a surprised woman and of a selfie, a Bollywood GIF, and a collection of emojis.
Image Tags | emojis, female(s), gifs, selfie
Facebook unterscheidet "Lieben" und "Liken"
(Facebook differentiates between "love" and "like")
Newspaper | Bayerischer Rundfunk
Date | 28.2.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | emojis, Facebook
Summary | Facebook has updated its "like" feature a year ago and now users have the opportunity to choose from a range of emojis to react to a post: love, laugh, suprised, sad, angry. Because this requires more clicks than a simple like, it can be inferred that users care more strongly about a post that they "reacted" to with an emoji. Facebook's algorithm is geared towards showing users much more content similar to the posts they reacted to.
Image Description | Photograph of a dog in a cone with the sad reaction emoji enlarged underneath.
Image Tags | emojis, Facebook
Dunkelhäutig, schwarzhaarig, blond - nur dieses Emoji fehlt noch
(Dark-skinned, black-haired, blond - only this emoji is still missing)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 20.1.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis, gender
Summary | Emojis have gotten a lot more socially inclusive lately, representing several shades of skin and hair color, mixing up male and female stereotypes by for instance featuring a prince emoji and a policewoman emoji, as well as adding a gender-non-conforming emoji, and an emoji wearing a hijab. One group however still feels left out and is very vocal in their demand for an emoji that represents them: red-haired people. A petition has been signed by several throusand people but it is not likely that there will be another update to the emoji collection soon.
Image Description | A collection of emojis, screenshots of tweets, and a selfie of a red-haired person.
Image Tags | emojis, female(s)
23 versteckte WhatsApp-Tricks
(23 hidden WhatsApp tricks)
Newspaper | Norddeutscher Rundfunk
Date | 25.1.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | GIFs, privacy, texting, WhatsApp
Summary | WhatsApp has added many new features over the years that not everyone may have heard about; from text design options to the sending of documents, doing video chats, or creating your own GIF. User can personalize their privacy settings to some extent, because even if one turns off the read receipt feature (blue ticks), others can still get that information with a few clicks. Treasured conversations can be saved and annoying contacts blocked or muted.
Image Description | Screenshots with instructions.
Image Tags | emojis, WhatsApp
Bilder aus Emojis bauen
(Building pictures out of emojis)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 6.3.2015
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | emojis
Summary | On emoji.ink users can build their own emojis, or rather, build pictures or scenes out of a large collection of emojis. A lot of fun can be had with this: one can design mosters with several heads or a scene of a penguin looking at a traffic sign. The creations can be saved and used later on. We have come quite far since the days of having to build a smiley emoticon out of three or more punctuation signs.
Image Description | Collection of emojis.
Image Tags | emojis
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