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Des emojis plutôt que des sculptures pour décorer les façades
(Emojis rather than sculptures to decorate buildings' facades)
Newspaper | Le Figaro
Date | 28.4.2017
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | emojis
Summary | A Dutch architect chose to decorate the facade of one of his buildings with 22 emojis. Classical architecture would use kings' faces or floral friezes. Young people appreciate the initiative; it's not "another of these annoying buildings".
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À la télévision, les programmes sous influence grandissante du numérique
(On television, programs are under the influence of the digital)
Newspaper | Le Figaro
Date | 28.10.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | emojis, social media, TV, youth
Summary | The TV industry seems to be lacking inspiration. As a result, they are trying to find new ways to create new formats based on what can be found online. For instance, CBS introduced Candy Crush, a one-hour show inspired from the game. Moreover, emojis will also make an appearance on TV. Indeed, in "The Great Emoji Challenge", participants will have to decode emoji messages in order to win money. The idea is to draw millenials' attention.
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SMS, tweets, e-mails... Et si on se parlait vraiment?
(SMS, tweets, emails...What if we really talked to each other?)
Newspaper | Le Figaro
Date | 27.1.2017
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | emojis, language threat, technology-free
Summary | Since we're always stuck to our screens, have we lost our conversational skills? Nonsense. Many people complain that new technologies have killed "real life" communication, and that emojis are replacing words. The author of the article claims that this trend is not true; nowadays people communicate a lot. Fanny Auger, director of the School of Life Paris, noticed that her class "How to have better conversations" is very popular. The focus is on finding inspiring and stimulating exchanges.
Image Description | Photograph of four young people drinking coffee, laughing, and looking at each other.
Image Tags | female(s), male(s)
Apple va remplacer l'emoji revolver par un pistolet à eau
(Apple is going to replace the gun emoji with a squirt gun)
Newspaper | Le Figaro
Date | 2.8.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | emojis, misunderstanding, threat
Summary | Apple decided to get rid of its gun emoji because authorities thought it was difficult to interpret this new form of communication. With this decision, Apple takes a stand in the U.S. gun debate. The expansion of emojis in the world reminds us of the idiom "a picture is worth a thousand words". The emoji trend can also lead to problems; sending a bomb emoji or gun emoji to someone can be perceived as a threat and people can be arrested for that.
Image Description | Series of gun emojis next to squirt emojis.
Image Tags | emojis
Apple transforme son emoji pêche
(Apple transforms its peach emoji)
Newspaper | Le Figaro
Date | 3.11.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | emojis, language threat, spelling
Summary | Not everyone agrees with the new iOS update; some emojis have disappeared. For instance, the old peach emoji was replaced by another emoji that looks more like an apricot. Changing emojis is another way of saying "you should write this way and not that way", which is similar to a spelling reform. Emojis are becoming political. Finally, emojis are not a threat to language; they are a way to complement it.
Image Description | Images of the old and new peach emojis, and photograph of a cap with the message "make peach (picture of the new peach emoji) peach (picture of the old peach emoji) again".
Image Tags | emojis
Dans le secret de la très discrète Académie des emojis
(The secret behind the very discrete Emoji Academy)
Newspaper | Le Figaro
Date | 31.10.2016
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | emojis, spelling
Summary | Emojis have to go through a lot before they can be available on our phones and apps; they first have to be approved by the Unicode Consortium. The Unicode Consortium was first created to codify all the different written characters in the world so that they would look similar on any platform. Now, the organization does not only focus on the normalization of words, but also of emojis. People working for the Unicode Consortium (mostly white 50-year old men) meet four times every year to discuss the evolution of emojis. They all agree on one point: emojis cannot be considered a “language”. Emojis complement language (by transmitting certain emotions for instance). Nevertheless, some debates surrounding emojis mirror certain debates related to spelling reforms.
Image Description | Images of different emojis, and logos of companies members of the Unicode Consortium.
Image Tags | emojis, logo
Les émojis ont-ils un sexe?
(Do have emojis have a gender?)
Newspaper | Le Figaro
Date | 6.2.2017
Language | French
Country | France
Topic Tags | emojis, gender, misunderstanding
Summary | Emojis are becoming a universal language. Will they allow men and women to understand each other? A recent study tried to figure out which emojis are mostly used by men and which are mostly used by women. Results show that men and women use different emojis and they use them differently. For instance, women tend to use more emojis with tears than men.
Image Description | Photograph of a coffee mug with a smiley face (design made in the frothy milk).
Image Tags | emojis
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