Number of Posts: 30
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Animojis, facial recognition and no home button: How the new iPhone X features will work
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 12.9.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis, smartphone
Summary | The new iPhone X includes new features: animoji (a face recognition software that allows users to create 3D animated emojis), and no home button.
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Mapped: The London Twitterati's emoji reactions to the general election result were predictably anti-Tory
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 7.7.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis, politics, Twitter
Summary | The Museum of London displayed a Twitter analysis that shows all the emojis that appeared in political tweets the day after the election. It shows that for example the most popular emoji was the "crying with laughter" face.
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How to get the Pride rainbow flag reaction on Facebook
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 12.6.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis, Facebook
Summary | Facebook added a temporary rainbow flag emoji to celebrate Pride month. The flag emoji joined the other reaction buttons.
Image Description | Screenshot of Facebook's reactions, people's tweets about the flag, Google search bar with the word 'lgbt'.
Image Tags | Facebook, Google, Twitter
Google 'professional women' emoji nominated for Design of the Year
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 16.8.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis, gender, Google
Summary | The Design Museum in London nominated Google's professional emojis for design of the year. Google introduced a new set of emojis to better reflect women's situation.
Image Description | Images of female emojis.
Image Tags | emojis
How emoji are taking over the world
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 3.8.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis, threat
Summary | Paul Kendall talks about the rise of emojis and their popularity. emojitracker.com is a website displaying a grid of 845 emojis; every time a user tweets an emoji, the emoji lights up. Young people (under 30) communicate through emojis nowadays. Even marketers use them to appeal to their customers. Emojis are useful and precise, they allow users to communicate non-verbal cues that are essential. People should not be concerned about the rise of emojis; they are here to stay, but they are not a language.
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How emojis took over your workplace - and the man who can help you make sense of it all
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 14.8.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis
Summary | Emojis are everywhere, even in one of the latest movies. Also, 92% of internet users in the world claim they use emojis in their digital communication. Emojis are not only used by teenage girls, workers also use them in their work emails. Keith Broni talks about the use of emojis in work emails and some rules people should follow.
Image Description | Photograph of a hand holding a smartphone displaying a chat conversation and emojis, portrait of Keith Broni, and woman in front of a big screen.
Image Tags | emojis, female(s), hand(s), male(s), smartphone, text
Using emojis makes other people think you are incompetent, research finds
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 14.8.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis
Summary | According to a study, people should be careful when using emojis (especially at work), because they can make you seem incompetent. Indeed, a smiley face is not a smile, and using emojis can have an impact on your career. The findings show that smiling emojis are not perceived as "warm" and can be seen as sign of incompetency.
Image Description | Photograph of a hand holding a smartphone displaying a series of emojis, and digital image of a crazy emoji.
Image Tags | emojis, hand(s), smartphone
Emoji overload? Why we're ditching yellow smileys in favour of actual words
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 22.7.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis, language threat
Summary | The author explain why she hates emojis. She dislikes the fact that people can now type a word and replace it with the correspondant emoji. Some technologies have significantly improved our lives, but our emotional communication didn't need to be improved like that, according to the author. Words were fine; there is no need to regress back to "hieroglyphics".
Image Description | Photograph of a young woman smiling and looking at her phone.
Image Tags | female(s), smartphone
Gran creates false teeth, memory pills and aches and pains emojis for pensioners
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 28.10.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis
Summary | A grandmother complained about the lack of emojis representing the elder generation. For instance, there is no emoji that shows you have lost your false tooth or hurt your back. These emojis might be available soon though. Diane Hill, who is 56, decided to create her own set of emojis represent the life of the elderly.
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These fitness emojis will help you gym-brag your way through January
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 8.1.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis
Summary | There are a few emojis representing gym equipment, cyclists, a weightlifter, and a trainer, but that's it. People can now download for free a pack of 36 new fitness emojis. The pack is called Emojivation and was introduced by a gym company. People want to express themselves and brag; they can now share their true workout experience.
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