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Les émojis ont-ils un sexe?

(Do have emojis have a gender?)

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Newspaper | Le Figaro
Date | 6.2.2017
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | emojis, gender, misunderstanding
Summary | Emojis are becoming a universal language. Will they allow men and women to understand each other? A recent study tried to figure out which emojis are mostly used by men and which are mostly used by women. Results show that men and women use different emojis and they use them differently. For instance, women tend to use more emojis with tears than men.
Image Description | Photograph of a coffee mug with a smiley face (design made in the frothy milk).
Image Tags | emojis

Frustrated or triumphant? You are probably sending the wrong signals by using these 12 commonly misunderstood emojis

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Newspaper | Mail Online
Date | 20.4.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis, misunderstanding, research/study
Summary | Emojis can be misunderstood although their meaning is thought to be universal. A study revealed which emojis are commonly misunderstood (e.g. emojis with facial expressions). In 2015, the word of the year was an emoji, which shows how popular emojis are.
Image Description | Various images representing confusing emojis, and video of how to use emojis in media.
Image Tags | emojis

What emoji REALLY mean: Researchers rank the sentiment of everything from the happy face to the chicken in bid to make symbols easier to use

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Newspaper | Mail Online
Date | 9.12.2015
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis, misunderstanding, research/study
Summary | Communicating with emojis can lead to misunderstandings; their meaning can be ambiguous. A study tried to rank them on an emotion scale based on how negative, neutral, or positive they are. Emojis are ideograms that not only represent emotions; they also transmit ideas.
Image Description | Chart representing the ranking of emojis based on their "sentiment score".
Image Tags | chart, emojis

Emoji invasion: the end of language as we know it :/

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Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 25.6.2015
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis, language threat, misunderstanding
Summary | Emojis are spreading rapidly and are becoming a new language. It has become hard to differentiate between verbal and written communication. Emojis have become popular because they allow people to express things they would normally express through body language. Text messages can be misunderstood, so adding an emoji at the end of a text can clarify it. Is this new virtual language replacing real language? The author of the article claims that it is not. Language is always changing and evolving.
Image Description | Photograph of an emoji typewriter.
Image Tags | emojis, typewriter

It or not, emoji evolving as language to be taken seriously

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Newspaper | Washington Post
Date | 28.2.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | emojis, law, misunderstanding, threat
Summary | Emojis as legal evidence crop up in court rooms more and more since people communicate much more on various social media. Two cases are known of students being questioned in court because they had posted something negative about school on social media accompanied with gun, bomb, or explosion emojis. Defendants text messages have been presented to the jury as evidence with the emojis because they can signal sarcasm or a joke. A general discussion has opened up about whether emojis should be regarded as evidence in court and if yes, how? Emojis do not have a set meaning, they are very context-dependent.
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Sags doch per Emoji

(Say it with emojis)

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Newspaper | Tages-Anzeiger
Date | 21.3.2015
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | emojis, misunderstanding
Summary | Adullts also use emojis. Emojis are cutesy little colorful symbols depicting simplified facial expressions, animals, or objects. Thematic packages of moving emojis can be bought. Emojis can be used to adorn messages or to replace written text altogether. Because their meanings are multivalent, they can easily be misunderstood, which results in awkwardness.
Image Description | Photograph of the author of the article.
Image Tags | female(s)

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