Digital Discourse Database

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Google marks World Emoji Day with a brand new set of emoji and bids farewell to its 'blobs'

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Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 17.7.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis, Google
Summary | Google unveiled its new emojis on World Emoji Day. Google said they would remove their 'blobs' and add a new set of emojis.
Image Description | Images of Google's new emojis, and people dressed up as emojis in London.
Image Tags | emojis, female(s)

Six amazing facts for World Emoji Day 2017 - including the most popular face

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Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 17.7.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis
Summary | For World Emoji Day, here are some facts about emojis: on Facebook and Twitter, the 'laugh cry' face is the most used emoji; the heart eyes comes second; the rolling on the floor emoji is popular in the US; on Messenger, people send more than 5 billion emojis every day. Emojis are not only used in our texts; they are also everyday objects (e.g. lamp, bedding, clothes).
Image Description | Video about emojis, smartphone screen displaying a series of emojis, and five photographs representing everyday 'emoji' objects.
Image Tags | emojis

From false-teeth smileys to memory pills: Gran inspires OAP emojis to cater for the older generation

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Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 29.10.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis
Summary | Older people don't always find emojis that express what they feel. Diane Hill is 56 and she decided to create new emojis that reflect older people's lives. Some of the emojis include: 'spending the kids' inheritance', 'memory pills', or 'aches and pains'.
Image Description | Photograph of Diane Hill, and four "elderly" emojis.

Apple shows off new emojis coming to your iPhone - including breastfeeding, hijabi and 'mind blown'

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Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 18.7.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis
Summary | New Apple emojis will soon be arriving: they include for instance a breastfeeding, hijab, bearded man, face vomiting, and mind blown emojis.
Image Description | Digital images of the new emojis.
Image Tags | emojis

This 'grimace face' emoji is causing awkward conversations - make sure you're using it correctly

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Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 15.4.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis, misunderstanding
Summary | The grimace face emoji does not look the same way on every platform, which can lead to some misunderstandings if people are using different devices.
Image Description | Grimace face emoji, 8 different grimace face emojis from different platforms, screenshots of conversations, and chart about emotion ranking
Image Tags | chart, emojis, text

Redheads could FINALLY be getting a ginger emoji after long campaign for equality

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Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 23.1.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis
Summary | At a meeting next week, Apple will discuss the introduction of a new Ginger emoji. They will see for instance whether they will introduce a new person with red hair or custom hair tags to existing emojis.
Image Description | Photograph of a hand holding a smartphone and choosing a ginger emoji, digital images representing various redhead emojis as well as other emojis
Image Tags | emojis, hand(s), smartphone

Now there's a single parent emoji

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Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 19.9.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis
Summary | Apple decided to include single parent emojis: a single mom and her kids, and a single dad and his kids. People are happy about this new iniative because it's representative of today's society.
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Miss Belgium 'condoned the N word and used a brown poo emoji' in response to Instagram pic of black man

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Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 20.1.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis, social media
Summary | Romanie Schotte, Miss Belgium 2017, added a poo emoji in response an Instagram post where a black man was a called a n*****. She then said she was not racist because her dad worked in Africa. People started an online campaign to strip her of her title of Miss Belgium. Schotte also said that the poo emoji was supposed to represent a chocolate ice cream.
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Children's stories translated into emojis - can you guess which classic is which?

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Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 25.10.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis, translation
Summary | Emojis are becoming more and more popular. In order to see if people could decipher the emoji language, Sarah Walen said that "Book People" translated children's stories in emojis.
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Neymar and Rafinha choose emjois to describe their Barcelona teammates - and have far too much fun

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Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 5.3.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis
Summary | Football players Neymar and Rafinha took part in a game where they had to pick an emoji to describe the other players of the Catalan team. They had a lot of fun playing the game.
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