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MacBook Pro, jetzt mit Emoji-Leiste
(MacBook Pro, now with an emoji bar)
Newspaper | Die Zeit
Date | 27.10.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | emojis
Summary | The new MacBook has a unique new feature: the touch bar. It is a touch sensitive dislay that offers different Buttons depending on which window is open on the laptop. When, for instance, a chat window is open, the touch bar displays a selection of emojis that users can just touch to type the emoji.
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15-jährige Berlinerin erfindet Kopftuch-Emoji
(15 year old Berliner creates hijab emoji)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 15.9.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis
Summary | A 15 year old girl from Berlin has submitted a hijab emoji design to the Unicode Consortium. That is the organization which authorizes new emojis. The designer, Rajouf Alhumedi argued that a hijab is part of many women's identity and that that should be represented in emojis. Emojis have become a valid language of its own - the Oxford English Dictionary even picked an emoji as the word of the year once.
Image Description | The new emojis.
Image Tags | emojis
"Apple, was hast du meinen Emojis angetan?"
("Apple, what have you done to my emojis?")
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 14.9.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis, Twitter
Summary | The new Apple update comes with redesigned emojis and people are devastated. The changed look of the emojis makes many users sad to the extend that they feel like they "have lost a friend", one person on Twitter writes. There are also a few new emojis, most notably: all emojis are available in multiple skin shades and most emojis now exist in a male and female version. There is also an emoji of a homosexual couple now.
Image Description | A series of Tweets about the new emojis.
Image Tags | emojis, Twitter
Emojimode
(Emoji fashion)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 14.8.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | emojis, language threat, marketing
Summary | Some think emojis are the bane of our existence, a regression into cave painting and giving up our sophistication of language. Others all for emojis and not prominent people in the fashion industry are designing pieces with emojis on them because emojis are all the rage.
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Das Schweigen der Emojis
(The Silence of Emojis)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 12.8.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | email, emojis, misunderstanding, texting
Summary | Our written and computer-mediated communication is requiring more and more non-textual signs. First the likes of this " :-) " came along and now text messages and emails have begun to look like someone spilled colorful candy all over them. Emojis also easily lead to misunderstandings, so the manicure emoji can be misinterpreted as a weird foot by people who are not in the know.
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Entwaffnend
(Disarming)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 3.8.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis, politics, punctuation, threat
Summary | Punctuation marks are probably jealous of emojis because they are replacing them! Discussion about emojis is becoming increasingly political. New emojis represent various skin colors, and both men and women for all activities/professions, for instance a female police officer and basketball player. Apple has even decided to replace the gun emoji with a water pistol in light of recent gun violence deaths in the US. Most People however ridicule Apple's move and argue that it is more of a PR stunt than a political statement.
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Sag noch einmal Wasserpistole!
(Say water pistol one more time!)
Newspaper | Die Zeit
Date | 2.8.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | emojis, politics, threat
Summary | Apple will replace the pistol emoji with a water pistol emoji as a political statement. Apple has been known to take political sides but it is questionable whether censoring guns will help any cause, especially because the bomb, sword, and knife emojis are not being removed.
Image Description | A photoshopped scene from Pulp Fiction showing Samuel L. Jackson pointing a water pistol emoji.
Image Tags | emojis, male(s)
Junge Revoluzzer
(Young revolutionaries)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 1.7.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | computer programming, emojis, privacy, smartphone, youth
Summary | Older generations always complain about how the youth today is virtually tied to their smartphones and Computers and how they do not Show much interest for anything else. They have however developed fantastic programming skills and business ideas. The finalists of a start-up competition in Berlin have come up with various ideas: coffee mugs indicating the optimal drinking temperature with emojis, computer encryption software to protect one's privacy, and many other ideas.
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Endlich, ein Emoji für Döner
(Finally, an emoji for Döner Kebab)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 4.6.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis, selfie
Summary | The Unicode Consortium has published the 72 new emojis to join the old corpus. It include a lot of additional animals, foods, sports, as well as a selfie emoji. The new emojis however also work towards more diversity: Mrs Santa, a prince, a male dancer, and a groom are now available on all platforms.
Image Description | Emojis.
Image Tags | emojis
iPhone-Nutzer sehen lachendes Emoji oft als Grimasse
(iPhone users oftentimes see laughing emoji as grimace)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 13.4.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | emojis, misunderstanding, research/study
Summary | Different smartphone operational systems display the same emojis differently. This can cause quite some misunderstandings, as researchers have found out. One emoji is being interpreted much differently when displayed within Android versus when displayed within Apple OS. So a positive smiling emoji appears as a grimace to iPhone users.
Image Description | Emojis and Tweets with compilations of emojis displayed on different platforms.
Image Tags | emojis, Twitter
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