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Viele neue Emojis
(Many new emojis)
Newspaper | Appenzeller Zeitung
Date | 27.6.2017
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis
Summary | Unicode Consortium are releasing a new set with new emojis. Among them are the female hijab emoji, various food emojis, a vomiting emoji, fantastical creatures like zombies and vampires, and many others.
Image Description | N/A
Lacht er noch oder weint er schon?
(Is he still laughing or is he crying already?)
Newspaper | Appenzeller Zeitung
Date | 5.4.2017
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis, misunderstanding
Summary | Emojis are centrally organized in the Unicode Consortium based in Silicon Valley, CA. They decide which emojis are made available on all devices. They usually accept emojis that are globally significant, like for example the new hijab emoji. Even though they try to make their emoijis more diverse, they still get criticized for giving all male emojis short hair and all female emojis long hair. Many Japanese people say that Westerners misunderstand many of the emotive emojis and misuse them.
Image Description | Emojis.
Image Tags | emojis
Es flitzt der Rollstuhl
(The bolting wheelchair )
Newspaper | Tages-Anzeiger
Date | 16.1.2017
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | (mental) health, diversity, emojis
Summary | A German organization for the inclusion of people with disabilities into public life is offering a set of Inklumojis: emojis that depict people with disabilities. These include a man in a wheelchair with fire shooting out of the back suggesting speed, athletes with leg prosthetics, a romantic couple holding hands, one of them with a prosthetic arm, and many more. Emojis can normalize people with disabilities much easier than big advertising campaigns which is why they will attempt to have their emojis included by the Unicode Consortium.
Image Description | Emojis of people with diabilities.
Image Tags | emojis, female(s), male(s)
Google proposes new set of female emojis to promote equality
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 11.5.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis, gender
Summary | Google proposed new emojis representing gender diversity. The new set of emojis includes for instance female engineers, chemists, plumbers, and farmers. Millions of people around the world use emojis, so it is important to represent people accurately.
Image Description | Images of the new set of female emojis.
Image Tags | emojis, female(s)
New emojis to include breastfeeding, a hijab and the lotus position
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 12.11.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis
Summary | 56 new emojis will be released (e.g. bearded man, sandwich, face vomiting, woman wearing a hijab). However, there is still a lack of redhead emojis.
Image Description | Different versions of the hijab emoji, and screenshots of tweets about the hijab emoji and the lack of ginger emojis.
Image Tags | emojis, Twitter
Emoji diversity: how 'silly little faces' can make a big difference
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 7.11.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis, research/study
Summary | San Francisco hosted the first Emojicon conference, where people could participate in different sessions (e.g Emoji karaoke, translation of songs into emojis, emoji spellcasting, etc.). Emojis are everywhere and users feel attached to them. They were even considered as art (they joined the MoMa in New York). However, the rise of emoji has led to cultural problems; people want emojis to represent the world's diversity. A researcher wanted to find out why the first emojis were not diverse. She said that the first emojis actually aligned with the belief that technology is neutral.
Image Description | Photograph of two smartphone with emojis on their screen, photograph of the emojibator next to an emoji pillow, image of the original set of 176 emojis, and set of emoji faces in different skin colors
Image Tags | emojis
Gran creates false teeth, memory pills and aches and pains emojis for pensioners
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 28.10.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis
Summary | A grandmother complained about the lack of emojis representing the elder generation. For instance, there is no emoji that shows you have lost your false tooth or hurt your back. These emojis might be available soon though. Diane Hill, who is 56, decided to create her own set of emojis represent the life of the elderly.
Image Description | N/A
Redhead emoji finally on the table after campaign for ginger equality
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 20.1.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis
Summary | The readhead emoji will be released soon. People had been complaining about the lack of ginger emojis. There will be two possibilities: a single readhead emoji, or custom-hair option to choose "red hair". The campaign to introduced a ginger emoji was launched in Scotland.
Image Description | N/A
Hijab emoji approved by Unicode
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 11.11.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis
Summary | The list of new emoji candidates includes a hijab emoji, a breastfeeding woman, and emojis with beard. A 15-year old teenager from Germany launched a campaign to introduce the hijab emoji
Image Description | N/A
Now there's a single parent emoji
Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 19.9.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis
Summary | Apple decided to include single parent emojis: a single mom and her kids, and a single dad and his kids. People are happy about this new iniative because it's representative of today's society.
Image Description | N/A
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