Number of Posts: 56
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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
Des émojis pour briser un tabou
(Emojis to break a taboo)
Newspaper | Le Parisien
Date | 31.5.2017
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis
Summary | "Plan International" fights for young people's rights in developing countries. The organization asked internet users to choose an emoji to talk about women's periods. They can choose from 5 explicit "drawings". The CEO of Plan International thinks that including a period emoji is necessary; it is supposed to break a taboo.
Image Description | Images of possible "period emojis".
Image Tags | emojis
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)
Gaymoji: A New Language for That Search
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 14.3.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis, research/study, sexting
Summary | The dating app Grindr caters to gay men and is now adding specific emojis - called Gaymojis - to their app. They have noticed that 20% of the messages sent on their platform contain emojis so they are providing emojis specific to the gay dating experience such as a peach with a phone (= bootycall) or an eggplant with a ruler (= well endowed). One linguist says that emojis may take some pressure off of the content of the conversation. Instead of thinking of something to say, emojis just signal that 'I am here and I am interested'.
Image Description | Portrait of the Grindr owners, the Grindr office in LA, and some Gaymojis.
Image Tags | emojis, male(s)
Rayoufs Kopftuch-Smiley lässt die Welt lächeln
(Rayouf's hijab smiley makes the world smile)
Newspaper | Hamburger Morgenpost
Date | 19.9.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis
Summary | Rayouf Alhumedhi, a 15 year old girl from Berlin, submitted a proposal for a hijab emoji to the Unicode Consortion. She received much media coverage - the BBC and CNN both reported on her advocacy for diversity in representation within emojis. One of the Reddit co-founders helped her design the emojis. She submitted both a female emoji with a hijab and a male emoji with a kafija.
Image Description | N/A
Emoji mit Kopftuch
(Emoji with hijab)
Newspaper | Stern
Date | 22.9.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis
Summary | A 15-year old girl named Rayouf Alhumedhi submitted a draft of a hijab emoji to Unicode Consortium. She got the idea when she wanted to name a group chat of her friends with emojis representing each one of them. Then she noticed that none of the emojis actually represent her. After some research online she got in touch with Unicode Consortium and was helped by one of the employees there to make a formal emoji submission.
Image Description | N/A
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
Kopftuch-Emoji und 50 weitere Zeichen könnten 2017 kommen
(Hijab emoji and 50 other signs could come in 2017)
Newspaper | Hamburger Abendblatt
Date | 11.11.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis
Summary | The Unicode Constortium has published a list of 51 emojis that they are planning on adding to the collection this year. Among them are a breast-feeding emoji, an emo emoji, as well as a hijab emoji. None of these are 100% confirmed but the hijab emoji has very prominent supporters: the Reddit founder created a thread specifically for the 15-year old girl from Berlin who submitted the design for the hijab emoji.
Image Description | A collection of emojis.
Image Tags | emojis, female(s)
Es lebe das Kopftuch-Smiley
(Long live the hijab emoji)
Newspaper | Berliner Kurier
Date | 14.11.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis
Summary | A 15 year old girl from Berlin submitted a hijab emoji proposal to the Unicode Consortium who are in charge of adding new emojis. Low and behold, the proposal was accepted and now there will be an emoji of a smiling woman in a hijab on phones all around the world to represent the 550 million women wearing hijabs. The proposal had been very popular on social media so the wide support certainly helped.
Image Description | Hijab emoji proposal document (7 pages).
Image Tags | emojis, female(s)
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