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Emoji-Verbot bei der Polizei
(Emoji prohibition for the police)
Newspaper | Tagesspiegel
Date | 16.10.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | emojis, law, Twitter
Summary | In a recent tweet by the Saxon local police, they used an emoji. That is inappropriate. The emoji was of a megaphone. That is distasteful because it depicts complicated matters as simple and light-hearted, almost humorous.
Image Description | Photograph of the author.
Image Tags | female(s)
New Yorker MoMA nimmt Original-Emojis in Sammlung auf
(New Yorker MoMA takes up original emojis in their collection)
Newspaper | Hamburger Abendblatt
Date | 1.11.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | emojis
Summary | The New York Museum of Modern Art is displaying the original emojis from 1999 in their lobby. They were originally first black and white before they became colored (with six colors) and measured mere 12 pixels. The museum is also exhibiting a video game and the @ symbol.
Image Description | A hand picking an emoji on a smartphone screen.
Image Tags | emojis, hand(s), smartphone
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)
Facebook testet neues Symbol: Gefällt mir nicht!
(Facebook is testing new symbol: dislike!)
Newspaper | Berliner Morgenpost
Date | 7.3.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | emojis, Facebook
Summary | Facebook is testing a new reaction feature: a downwards-facing thumb. The dislike button has continuously been requested by Facbook users since the advent of the platform. Mark Zuckerberg had however always refused to integrate a dislike button because it would bring a negative vibe on Facebook.
Image Description | N/A
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)
Das sind die beliebtesten Fotos auf Instagram 2016
(These are the most popular photographs on Instagram 2016)
Newspaper | Hamburger Abendblatt
Date | 1.12.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | emojis, Instagram
Summary | The undefeated queen of Instagram is Selena Gomez. She has the most followers: over one million. Many of the most-liked pictures on Instagram are hers. Another extremely popular picture on Instagram is of Christiano Ronaldo kissing the trophy of the European football championship. The general mood on Instagram is positive with the most popular emojis being hearts and the most popular hashtags revolving around happiness.
Image Description | Various popular Instagram posts.
Image Tags | emojis, female(s), Instagram, male(s)
So können Twitter-Nutzer Google mit Emojis durchsuchen
(This is how Twitter users can search Google with emojis)
Newspaper | Hamburger Abendblatt
Date | 7.12.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | artificial intelligence, emojis, Google, Twitter
Summary | Twitter users can now initiate Google searches from within the app by tweeting @Google with the search term. Anothernew feature is that users can search Google with an emoji. A chatbot then does an appropriate search (for instance: burger emoji --> search for burger places) and tweets the results back. The innovation's slogan is "Google now speaks emoji".
Image Description | Hand holding a smartphone with Google written in the background.
Image Tags | Google, hand(s), smartphone
Guten Morgen
(Good morning)
Newspaper | Aachener Zeitung
Date | 13.12.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | emojis, misunderstanding
Summary | Everyone has seen them already - the pancake faces with many different facial expressions. Some emojis are however easily misunderstood. The grinning emoji can for instance be misinterpreted as grinding his teeth and the kissing emoji has been misunderstood as whistling. Maybe it is better not to use them in the light of all this confusion.
Image Description | Grinning emoji and kissing emoji.
Image Tags | emojis
Diese neuen Emojis gibt‘s jetzt auf dem iPhone
(These new emojis are now available on iPhones)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 14.12.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis, gender
Summary | Another new set of emojis is now available since the new iPhone update. New emojis include the facepalm, a shrug emoji, an avocado, as well as new professions such as astronauts or scientists - as men and women. Especially the facepalm was highly anticipated by many people.
Image Description | Collages of the new emojis.
Image Tags | emojis
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