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Google creates 13 new emoji to represent working women in world's fastest-growing language
Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 13.5.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis, gender
Summary | People have been complaining about the lack of gender equality on the emoji keyboard. Women claim that the available emojis don't represent women fairly (e.g. princess, bride, dancer). The new suggestions include for instance a businesswoman, a doctor, a chef, a teacher, and a musician.
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Twitter adds support for 69 new emoji - but there's a very annoying catch
Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 25.5.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis, Twitter
Summary | Twitter introduced 69 new emojis. However, since the characters are part of the Unicode 10.0 release, those who are using macOS, iOS, Android or Windows won't be able to see the new emojis on their Twitter apps.
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Redheads rejoice as ginger emoji moves a step closer to reality
Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 17.5.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis
Summary | Redhead, bald, curly and white-haired emojis are candidates for the new Unicode release. Several options are possible: introducing a custom hair tag, or including "people" with different hair colors.
Image Description | N/A
Redhead emoji FINALLY on the cards after long campaign for ginger equality
Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 20.1.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis
Summary | Apple is thinking about introducing a new ginger emoji. However, they still don't know what the new emoji will look look like. Should they introduce a custom hair tag to existing emoji or add new people with red hair?
Image Description | N/A
Google is killing off Android's emoji blobs
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 23.5.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis, Google
Summary | Google are changing their indiosyncratic emoji blobs into more conventional round, more humanoid emojis. Part of the reason may be the Unicode Consortium has begun introducing skin and hair color options for more diversity. This way, emojis are becoming more humanoid and less abstract. Google is following suit so as to ensure maximum emotional compatibility between smartphone operation systems.
Image Description | Evolutions of emojis in Android from Emojipedia.
Image Tags | emojis
Hijab emoji coming to iPhones next year in victory for Muslim teenager
Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 11.11.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis
Summary | The Unicode consortium is making huge strides in offering more diverse emojis. Users can now select their preferred skin color out of six shades for all humanoid emojis to perfectly represent them. Also, a 15 year old girl from Berlin submitted a draft for a hijab emoji to represent her and millions of other hijabis around the globe.
Image Description | Hijab emoji, a Getty image of a hijabi from behind, a breast feeding emojis and other emojis.
Image Tags | emojis, female(s)
Emoji: the first truly global language?
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 31.8.2014
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis, word/writing
Summary | The author of the article explains how sometimes sending an emoji can convey more than words, in just one click. Emojis have come a long way since their origin, and today one of the major concerns about emojis is diversity. The authors claims that if we're building a new language, we want to include everyone and everything. Emojis are also being used in other contexts (e.g. video clip, book). Words can express a lot but they can also create misunderstandings; emojis can thus be a way of freeing oneself from the limitations of language.
Image Description | Digital image representing different emojis.
Image Tags | emojis
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