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"Die Flut der Zeichen ist enorm"
("The flood of signs is enormous")
Newspaper | Stuttgarter Zeitung
Date | 27.9.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | emojis, misunderstanding, texting
Summary | The production of signs is in a stage of unprecedented proliferation - everyone partakes in textual production online and so the amount of meaningful signs out there is larger than ever. This is quite interesting with respect to emojis because we have only just started coming up with conventions of their use. We are still negotiating how emoji use can be codified. It is common to think, for instance, that a response without emoji to a message with emoji indicates negative feelings.
Image Description | Emojis and hand gestures.
Image Tags | emojis, hand(s), male(s)
New Yorker MoMA nimmt Original-Emojis in Sammlung auf
(New Yorker MoMA takes up original emojis in their collection)
Newspaper | Hamburger Abendblatt
Date | 1.11.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | emojis
Summary | The New York Museum of Modern Art is displaying the original emojis from 1999 in their lobby. They were originally first black and white before they became colored (with six colors) and measured mere 12 pixels. The museum is also exhibiting a video game and the @ symbol.
Image Description | A hand picking an emoji on a smartphone screen.
Image Tags | emojis, hand(s), smartphone
Endlich kommt das Emoji, auf das die Welt gewartet hat
(The emoji everyone has been waiting for is finally here)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 2.11.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis
Summary | 72 new emojis will be added with the next apple update: a selfie emoji, a facepalm emoji, a male dancer, prince, and Mrs. Santa Claus emoji as well as bacon, croissant, and spoon emojis. What German users are however most excited about is the doner kebab emoji which the Unicode Consortium has plainly named "stuffed flat bread".
Image Description | Video about the new emojis.
Image Tags | emojis, hand(s), smartphone
So können Twitter-Nutzer Google mit Emojis durchsuchen
(This is how Twitter users can search Google with emojis)
Newspaper | Hamburger Abendblatt
Date | 7.12.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, emojis, Google, Twitter
Summary | Twitter users can now initiate Google searches from within the app by tweeting @Google with the search term. Anothernew feature is that users can search Google with an emoji. A chatbot then does an appropriate search (for instance: burger emoji --> search for burger places) and tweets the results back. The innovation's slogan is "Google now speaks emoji".
Image Description | Hand holding a smartphone with Google written in the background.
Image Tags | Google, hand(s), smartphone
Vorsicht vor dieser Whatsapp-Falle
(Beware of this WhatsApp scam)
Newspaper | Stern
Date | 19.12.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | emojis, threat, WhatsApp
Summary | A WhatsApp chain message is going around offering people free holiday emojis. A link directs them to a dodgy website where they type in their phone number and service provider. Instead of getting free emojis however one is signed up for an expensive subscription with hardly any possibility to quit. People should be careful with content they receive and spread through WhatsApp.
Image Description | A hand-held smartphone.
Image Tags | Facebook, female(s), hand(s), Instagram, smartphone, Viber, WhatsApp
Les « emoji » constituent-ils un langage à part entière?
(Are emojis part of a fully-fledged language?)
Newspaper | Le Monde
Date | 15.3.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | emojis, language threat, research/study
Summary | In 2015, an emoji was chosen as the word of the year, and two years before that, the novel Moby Dick was translated in emojis. Emojis are everywhere; are they becoming a new universal language? Two linguists conducted a study and revealed that emojis are like a cultural mirror. They also investigated emoji use in different countries and revealed geographical differences in the type of emoji used. Emojis are not a language; they are a complement to language. Some people might think it’s a language because emojis look like hieroglyphics. Emojis are mostly used to transmit emotions.
Image Description | Photograph of a hand clicking on several emojis on a screen, and screenshot of Andy Murray's tweet composed of emojis.
Image Tags | emojis, hand(s), tablet, Twitter
Secrets of the Emoji World, Now With Its Own Convention
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 7.11.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | emojis
Summary | An obscure committee called Unicode Consortium made up of various representatives of leading technological companies world-wide has the ultimate power over which content gets turned into emojis and which does not. An emoji convention (Emojicon) is organized in San Francisco, decorated with emoji-shaped balloons, beach balls, bean bags, emoji foods, people dressed up as emojis, and with many expert speakers from academia, the corporate world, as well as artists and designers. Many of them are unhappy with such a small unrepresentative group of a few (likely) middle-aged, white men should decide on which emojis are available to everyone around the world. The Unicode Consortium has too much power over the global visual language.
Image Description | A hand reaching into a pile of emoji cut-outs. A person dressed as the peach emoji being interviewed. Two people in costumes taking a selfie.
Image Tags | emojis, hand(s), selfie
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