Digital Discourse Database

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Google marks World Emoji Day with a brand new set of emoji and bids farewell to its 'blobs'

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Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 17.7.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis, Google
Summary | Google unveiled its new emojis on World Emoji Day. Google said they would remove their 'blobs' and add a new set of emojis.
Image Description | Images of Google's new emojis, and people dressed up as emojis in London.
Image Tags | emojis, female(s)

Six amazing facts for World Emoji Day 2017 - including the most popular face

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Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 17.7.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis
Summary | For World Emoji Day, here are some facts about emojis: on Facebook and Twitter, the 'laugh cry' face is the most used emoji; the heart eyes comes second; the rolling on the floor emoji is popular in the US; on Messenger, people send more than 5 billion emojis every day. Emojis are not only used in our texts; they are also everyday objects (e.g. lamp, bedding, clothes).
Image Description | Video about emojis, smartphone screen displaying a series of emojis, and five photographs representing everyday 'emoji' objects.
Image Tags | emojis

Using emojis makes other people think you are incompetent, research finds

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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

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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'

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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

'Ha' Isn't a Laugh. Seriously?

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Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 8.7.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | abbreviations, emojis, Facebook, research/study, texting, word/writing
Summary | People express laughs in different ways when the text or otherwise communicate online. Some type a version of "haha", others write "LOL" or a similar abbreviation but none of these messages mean that one is actually laughing. Linguists who have analyzed thousands of texts claim that LOLs signal interlocutor involvement like an "uh-huh" on the phone.
Image Description | Cartoon of various people laughing with various noises.
Image Tags | male(s)

This 'grimace face' emoji is causing awkward conversations - make sure you're using it correctly

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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

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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

Emojis to grace Pepsi products in summer campaign

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Newspaper | USA Today
Date | 19.2.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | emojis, hashtags, marketing, social media
Summary | Pepsi is using emojis to market their product because it is the "language of today" that transcends cultures and is intellegible for everyone. The new campaign also includes the two hasthags #PepsiMoji and #SayItWithPepsi to encourage consumers to post about their purchase on social media. Coca Cola recently had a similar campaign with first names on their bottles. They had been very successful with making consumers engage with the company through social media. Consumers basically did free marketing for them by posting pictures of Coke bottles with their names on their private accounts.
Image Description | Pepsi bottles with emojis and Coca Cola bottles with first names.
Image Tags | emojis, logo

Headscarf emojis not an option – but teenage girl fixes that

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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)

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