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Learn to speak EMOJI: Translator app turns everything you say into popular symbols
Newspaper | Mail Online
Date | 17.12.2015
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis, translation, youth
Summary | Words do not always express the exact feeling people want to transmit, so emojis can help. Thanks to a new app (SpeakEmoji), you can now translate what you want to say (voice) into emojis. Emojis are a new universal language, so this new app is suited for our digital era. The app was first designed to help parents communicate through emojis. In 2015, an emoji was chosen as word of the year because it represented the mood and preocuppations of the year.
Image Description | Screenshots of the SpeakEmoji app, video of the new translator app, and video of how to use emojis in social media
Image Tags | emojis, male(s), social media
What emoji REALLY mean: Researchers rank the sentiment of everything from the happy face to the chicken in bid to make symbols easier to use
Newspaper | Mail Online
Date | 9.12.2015
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis, misunderstanding, research/study
Summary | Communicating with emojis can lead to misunderstandings; their meaning can be ambiguous. A study tried to rank them on an emotion scale based on how negative, neutral, or positive they are. Emojis are ideograms that not only represent emotions; they also transmit ideas.
Image Description | Chart representing the ranking of emojis based on their "sentiment score".
Image Tags | chart, emojis
Emoji invasion: the end of language as we know it :/
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 25.6.2015
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis, language threat, misunderstanding
Summary | Emojis are spreading rapidly and are becoming a new language. It has become hard to differentiate between verbal and written communication. Emojis have become popular because they allow people to express things they would normally express through body language. Text messages can be misunderstood, so adding an emoji at the end of a text can clarify it. Is this new virtual language replacing real language? The author of the article claims that it is not. Language is always changing and evolving.
Image Description | Photograph of an emoji typewriter.
Image Tags | emojis, typewriter
Emoji is dragging us back to the dark ages – and all we can do is smile
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 27.5.2015
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis, language threat
Summary | The fact that the new "emoji language" is expanding fast is viewed as a return to the dark ages. According to the author of the article, humanity is going downhill with this new visual language. Young people seem to prefer using emojis rather than words to express themselves (according to a survey). The author claims that images limit people's expression compared to words which are more adaptable. He also compares emojis with hieroglyphics and the Egyptian civilization.
Image Description | Two digital images representing different sets of emojis, and photograph of Egyptian hieroglyphics.
Image Tags | emojis, hieroglyphics
Por primera vez, la palabra del año es un emoji
(For the first time, the word of the year is an emoji)
Newspaper | infobae
Date | 18.11.2015
Language | Spanish
Country | Argentina
Topic Tags | emojis, word/writing
Summary | The Oxford Dictionary chose an emoji as the word of the year because it reflects people's state of mind and preocupations in 2015. Emojis are not only used by young people; it is also a new form of expression that can break down language barriers.
Image Description | Image of the Oxford Dictionary word of the year: the face with tears of joy emoji
Image Tags | emojis
Aufgefallen
(Caught the eye)
Newspaper | St. Galler Tagblatt
Date | 25.2.2015
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis
Summary | Emojis now offer smileys and hand gestures in various skin colors. This innovation is coming from Apple. There is also a rumor going around online that emojis depicting same-sex couples with children will be included.
Image Description | N/A
Digitales Leben: Der Boom der Emojis
(Digital life: The boom of emojis)
Newspaper | Handelszeitung
Date | 22.5.2015
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | emojis, marketing, smartphone
Summary | Emojis can no longer be avoided. People from all ranks of life are using them. Companies even use them in marketing and have to regulate their use; the eggplant emoji is inappropriate. Every smartphone has a few hundred emojis available and an app exists that lets users communicate with emojis only – it is called Emojli.
Image Description | Digital image representing different emojis.
Image Tags | emojis
Emojis: As Japanese tire of emoticons, could their days be numbered elsewhere?
Newspaper | The Independent
Date | 13.12.2015
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis
Summary | Emojis are everywhere; they are a part of our daily interactions and have become a new language. The birthplace of emojis is Japan, but the little symbols are not as popular over there anymore. Japanese people don't like the style of Western emojis, which explains the fading popularity of emojis in Japan. Apple's emojis were designed in a more Western style, different from Japanese emojis. Diversity has been an important issue regarding emojis. We can use same-sex couples emojis and choose the color of emoji's skin, but people are still waiting to see red-haired emojis for instance.
Image Description | Digital images of emojis and photographs of smartphones showing text messages and emojis.
Image Tags | emojis, smartphone, text
Emoji is named as Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year
Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 17.11.2015
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis, word/writing
Summary | The "face with tears of joy" emoji was named word of the joy by the Oxford Dictionary. Emojis are symbols of today's culture and communication, and are replacing traditional forms of communication. There is nowadays a focus on visual communication. Emojis are a new form of communication that allow people to express their emotions, and to go beyond linguistic barriers.
Image Description | Digital image of the "face with tears of joy" emoji, and photograph of a man reading the Oxford Dictionary of English.
Image Tags | dictionary, emojis, male(s)
Group Weighs Expansion of the Emoji Vocabulary
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 26.10.2015
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | emojis
Summary | The Unicode Consortium decides which emojis get developed and which do not. Representatives of the most important smartphone companies are members along with “language grammarians”. Still, Unicode’s president is very clear about emojis not being a language because complex ideas cannot be communicated free of ambiguity by using only emojis. Also, different cultures use emojis differently (example of the eggplant emoji meaning a phallus in the US).
Image Description | Digital image: collage of emojis.
Image Tags | emojis
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