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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.
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Teen launches campaign for a very different emoji which "represents her" - and 550 million others
Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 16.9.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis
Summary | A Muslim teenager launched a campaign to introduce a hijab emoji. She wants an emoji that represents her and 550 million other women.
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Samsung risks racism storm as it introduces new non-diverse emoji that 'make everyone white'
Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 26.2.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis
Summary | Samsung introduced new emojis, but the problem is that users are not allowed to choose the colour of the emojis' skin. Emojipedia people noticed that only two emojis were not white: a policeman and a boy.
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Mums could soon have a breastfeeding emoji - crying babies and sore nipples could be next
Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 19.10.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis
Summary | Mothers would like more emojis representing motherhood. Yahoo said that the breastfeeding emoji may be released soon. But moms would like to see other emojis such as a crying baby or a mom with vomit in her hair.
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Yorkshire wants its own EMOJI to celebrate the county and its 'proud heritage'
Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 27.7.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis
Summary | Yorkshire wants add new emojis representing the county's culture and heritage (e.g Yorkshire pudding, Yorkshire Terrier...).
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Apple DROPS rifle emoji from Olympics iPhone keyboard update as gun control debate rages
Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 20.6.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis
Summary | New Olympic-themed emojis are supposed to be released, but Apple decided to drop the rifle emoji (even if shooting is an Olympic sport).
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Apple's next iOS update will bring 72 new emoji to your iPhone - including shrug, facepalm and BACON
Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 1.11.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis
Summary | Apple is going to release 72 new emojis (e.g. shrug, facepalm, sick, fingers crossed, bacon, avocado).
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Apple to swap gun emoji for WATER PISTOL in iOS 10 update as gun control debate rages
Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 2.8.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis
Summary | Emoji decided to replace the gun emoji with a water pistol emoji; it might be because of the recent shootings that took place in the US. Moreover, Apple introduced more emojis representing racial and sexual diversity.
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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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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)
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