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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)
How emojis can save your relationship - and help men understand what women mean
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 21.5.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis, gender
Summary | Emojis are everywhere and are used by 90% of internet users in the world. Professor Vyvyan Evans said that emojis might help men and women get along better since emojis help clarify messages with non-verbal cues. If people add emojis in their text messages, there is less misunderstanding.
Image Description | N/A
Kim Kardashian's NSFW Kimojis applauded for empowering women and celebrating female sexuality
Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 6.2.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis, gender
Summary | Kimojis are very popular, and Kim Kardashian just released new emojis empowering women. The new set of emojis includes for instance birth control images and a tampon.
Image Description | N/A
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.
Image Description | N/A
What happens if you're both a man and a woman? Welcome to the 'third sex' generation
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 4.3.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | Facebook, gender
Summary | Facebook lets users choose from over seventy gender identities. Users can also just type in a new tem on how they wish to identify themselves gender-wise. More and more people are now learning about gender fluidity and realize that it is something that they identify with.
Image Description | Portraits of gender fluid celebrities.
Image Tags | female(s), male(s)
Former female marines: Facebook page only the latest instance of sexual abuse
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 8.3.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | cyberbullying, Facebook, gender, social media
Summary | The American Marine Corps has always had huge problems with female sodliers being sexually harrassed and assaulted. The harrassment has gotten exponentially worse since the advent of social media. Nude images of the women are now shared in Facebook groups, accompanied by hateful language. Some women report being threatened on Facebook.
Image Description | Personal photographs of a female marine in a helicopter and a portrait.
Image Tags | female(s)
YouTube reverses some restrictions on LGBT-themed content following uproar
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 21.3.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | gender, misunderstanding, Twitter, YouTube
Summary | Much of the LGBT content on YouTube is hidden when using the restricted mode. This is a setting that few users use, some parents, schools, libraries, et cetera. This mode is supposed to block out violent, dangerous, or sexual content showing nudity. Many creators came forth on Twitter and criticized YouTube for blocking their videos in the restricted mode despite there being no nudity or violence. Just topics around sexuality and health. YouTube has been adamant about clarifying that this is a bug in the algorithm and that they are fixing it but have not given a comprehensive list of their guidelines that make content "sensitive" so that it would disappear in the restricted mode.
Image Description | Tweets and videos about this.
Image Tags | female(s), male(s), Twitter, YouTube
School apologises for 'slut-shaming' prom posters about 'appropriate' dresses suggesting women 'to blame' for rape
Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 31.3.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | gender, hashtags, school, social media, Twitter
Summary | A Florida school was widely criticized online after a student shared posters that were put up in the school depicting what appropriate women's prom dresses look like and what kind of dresses are inappropriate. These posters were labeled with "good girl". The outrage is around the mysoginist language (degrading women to girls) and the mere fact that women's styling of their bodies is strongly policed and tied to accountability in sexual harrassment cases. The internet responded with a hashtag on Twitter with many contributions and the school's administration has since apologized.
Image Description | Image of the school, the original tweet with the posters, then tweets with students wearing woman symbol t-shirts in protest.
Image Tags | female(s), male(s), school, Twitter
Women tap into new roles as mobile internet scheme targets rural India
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 5.12.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | gender, Google
Summary | Only 2% of internet users in rural India are women. This huge discrepancy is being addressed with a new campaign sponsored by Google. A local woman is teaching the other women (and some men) to use the internet to, for instance check the current national retail price of onions so that middle men cannot rip them off. She is also teaching illiterate women how to use the internet with voice command.
Image Description | Woman with a bicycle cart with internet devices and women using tablets and smartphones.
Image Tags | female(s), smartphone, tablet
It may be shallow and salacious, but don’t blame Tinder for online misogyny
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 8.4.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | gender, online dating, research/study, social media, threat
Summary | A new study revealed that the dating app Tinder spreads sexism and ideals of beauty; however, according to the author of the article, such behavior is not new. The media tends to portray new technologies and new apps as responsible for numerous societal ills, thus being dangerous. This new research follows a similar discourse while blaming the dating app Tinder of misogyny. However, sexism and beauty standards also existed before the age of social media. Thus, sexist comments are not the result of new technologies/apps; they go well beyond our digital devices.
Image Description | Photograph of a smartphone with the Tinder app open; we can see parts of a woman's face and a big LIKE in green.
Image Tags | female(s), smartphone, Tinder
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