Number of Posts: 29
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Des émojis pour briser un tabou
(Emojis to break a taboo)
Newspaper | Le Parisien
Date | 31.5.2017
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis
Summary | "Plan International" fights for young people's rights in developing countries. The organization asked internet users to choose an emoji to talk about women's periods. They can choose from 5 explicit "drawings". The CEO of Plan International thinks that including a period emoji is necessary; it is supposed to break a taboo.
Image Description | Images of possible "period emojis".
Image Tags | emojis
Facebook: au «J'aime» s'ajoutent «J'adore», «Triste» ou «Grrr»
(Facebook: Besides "Like", "I love it", "Sad" or "Grrr" were added)
Newspaper | Les Echos
Date | 24.2.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | emojis, Facebook
Summary | Facebook introduced five new reaction buttons. They say they want to give people more possibilities to quickly share a reaction.
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Twitter: le bonheur est à Marseille
(Twitter: Happiness is in Marseille)
Newspaper | Les Echos
Date | 5.6.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | emojis, research/study
Summary | Visibrain conducted a study to find out what the happiest tweets are. According to Visibrain, the tweets from Marseille are the closest to happiness. They focused their research on tweets containing emojis. Perhaps southern climate influences Twitter's mood -the second "happiest" city on Twitter is Nice.
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Vous voulez vous séparer? Dites-le avec une aubergine
(Do you want to break up? Say it with an eggplant)
Newspaper | Le Monde
Date | 14.4.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | emojis, marketing
Summary | Forget red roses and hearts; if you want to declare your love, you can now send an eggplant. The company Eggplantmail.com proposes to send the vegetable anonymously with a personalized message for 9,99 dollars. Jack Kanyon (the founder) created the company as a joke, but it became very successful (more than 100 orders a day).
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Entreprise cherche traducteur parlant couramment l'emoji
(Company looking for a translator speaking emoji)
Newspaper | Le Monde
Date | 14.12.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | emojis, misunderstanding, translation
Summary | A translation company based in London (Today Translation) is looking for a an emoji translator. The translator will have to understand and explain misunderstandings related to emoji communication, and establish "trends". Emojis are now as common as numbers and letters. However, they do not mean the same thing everywhere. For example, the BBC claims that the "goodbye emoji" can simply mean "goodbye" in English or French, but in China, it means "you are no longer my friend". Is emoji a new language? Even if they express emotion, they can't be called a language.
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«Traducteur d'emojis», un poste rare recherché à Londres
("Emoji translator", a rare job wanted in London)
Newspaper | Le Figaro
Date | 15.12.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | emojis, misunderstanding, translation
Summary | Using emojis can lead to misunderstandings. Today Translation (based in London) is looking for an emoji translator. The employee would need to decipher and explain misunderstandings related to the use of emojis. This is a very serious job offer. Since people are using more and more emojis in their digital conversations, and since the meaning of emojis is not unversal, there is a real need for emoji translation.
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Des emojis plutôt que des sculptures pour décorer les façades
(Emojis rather than sculptures to decorate buildings' facades)
Newspaper | Le Figaro
Date | 28.4.2017
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | emojis
Summary | A Dutch architect chose to decorate the facade of one of his buildings with 22 emojis. Classical architecture would use kings' faces or floral friezes. Young people appreciate the initiative; it's not "another of these annoying buildings".
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À la télévision, les programmes sous influence grandissante du numérique
(On television, programs are under the influence of the digital)
Newspaper | Le Figaro
Date | 28.10.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | emojis, social media, TV, youth
Summary | The TV industry seems to be lacking inspiration. As a result, they are trying to find new ways to create new formats based on what can be found online. For instance, CBS introduced Candy Crush, a one-hour show inspired from the game. Moreover, emojis will also make an appearance on TV. Indeed, in "The Great Emoji Challenge", participants will have to decode emoji messages in order to win money. The idea is to draw millenials' attention.
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SMS, tweets, e-mails... Et si on se parlait vraiment?
(SMS, tweets, emails...What if we really talked to each other?)
Newspaper | Le Figaro
Date | 27.1.2017
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | emojis, language threat, technology-free
Summary | Since we're always stuck to our screens, have we lost our conversational skills? Nonsense. Many people complain that new technologies have killed "real life" communication, and that emojis are replacing words. The author of the article claims that this trend is not true; nowadays people communicate a lot. Fanny Auger, director of the School of Life Paris, noticed that her class "How to have better conversations" is very popular. The focus is on finding inspiring and stimulating exchanges.
Image Description | Photograph of four young people drinking coffee, laughing, and looking at each other.
Image Tags | female(s), male(s)
« Lol » est mort, vive le « haha » !
("Lol" is dead, long lives "haha"!)
Newspaper | Le Monde
Date | 12.8.2015
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | emojis, Facebook, gender, research/study
Summary | According to Facebook analysts, "lol" is dying out. In their study, they found out that only 1,9% of internet users use "lol" and 51,4% of them use "haha". Laughing emojis are used by 33,7% of internet users. "Lol" seems to be used by 30-year old men whereas emojis are mostly used by females under 20.
Image Description | Photograph of a dictionary page with a big LOL in the middle of the page.
Image Tags | dictionary
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