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iPhone-Nutzer sehen lachendes Emoji oft als Grimasse
(iPhone users oftentimes see laughing emoji as grimace)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 13.4.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | emojis, misunderstanding, research/study
Summary | Different smartphone operational systems display the same emojis differently. This can cause quite some misunderstandings, as researchers have found out. One emoji is being interpreted much differently when displayed within Android versus when displayed within Apple OS. So a positive smiling emoji appears as a grimace to iPhone users.
Image Description | Emojis and Tweets with compilations of emojis displayed on different platforms.
Image Tags | emojis, Twitter
"Ich bin dein Sohn!"
("I am your son!")
Newspaper | Die Zeit
Date | 6.4.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | childhood, emojis, texting, YouTube
Summary | It is interesting to watch children develop a texting personality. As they grow up with new media, they use them quite naturally. They easily incorporate emojis, use audio messages, or share YouTube videos. Texting humor is also learned quite automatically.
Image Description | Image of a boy holding a smartphone.
Image Tags | male(s), smartphone
Bild + Text = Kunst
(Image + text = art)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 30.3.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | emojis, GIFs, Snapchat, texting
Summary | The smartphone generation fears nothing more than bland text messages. Language has become more multimodal: the word of the year chosen by the Oxford English Dictionary is an emoji! The makers of the app Legend have recognized this and allow users to upload Images and edit them with text, color, filters, and animations - much like on Snapchat. The product can be sent on any platform as a video or GIF.
Image Description | N/A
Muslimische Smileys
(Muslim smileys)
Newspaper | Welt
Date | 18.3.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis
Summary | An app with muslim-themed emojis is now available. The emojis can however only be sent as image files and not integrated in the keyboard. They would have to be included by the Unicode Consortium for that to be possible and an Australian is already petitioning to Unicode to include muslim emojis. Meanwhile, Indonesia wants to force Unicode to block all emojis depicting homosexuality within the country because it clashes with their Islamic morals and values.
Image Description | The Muslim Emojis in use.
Image Tags | emojis, female(s), male(s)
Emoji: Rolle vorwärts
(Emoji: rolling forward)
Newspaper | Die Zeit
Date | 16.2.2016
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | emojis, Facebook, threat
Summary | A bunch of new emojis have been included in the latest Apple update: the taco, a lion, and the eye-roll emoji which is the most popular of them all. In our age where online language is dominated by hyperbole, that is quite calm for a change. Simultaneously, Facebook enhances the like function with six emotions depicted by emojis.
Image Description | A bunch of eye-roll emojis with a few different emojis in between.
Image Tags | emojis
Täglich neue Inhalte generieren
(Generate new content every day)
Newspaper | Schweizer Bank
Date | 16.12.2016
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | emojis, Instagram, marketing, Snapchat, social media
Summary | SIX's communication specialist has taken a university certificate course in social media management. It is very useful in highlighting the uses and risks of corporate social media use. Her job consists of creating original content on multiple social media profiles of her company. She has organized emoji battles and uploaded drone films of corporate events. One downside of the cetrificate course, she says, was that it never mentioned Snapchat or Instagram even though those are the most popular platforms among digital natives.
Image Description | N/A
Ein Update für Emoji-Fans
(An update for emoji fans)
Newspaper | Tages-Anzeiger
Date | 13.12.2016
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | emojis
Summary | The new Apple update includes 70 new emojis entered by the Unicode Consortium: various new animals, vegetables, bacon, doner kebab, a scary clown, a pinocchio nose, as well as a facepalm emoji. Thanks to the new pregnant woman emoji, pregnancy announcements can now be made with a minimal character count.
Image Description | Keystone image of hands holding an iPhone and another iPhone lying next to it.
Image Tags | hand(s), smartphone
Jetzt kommt die Sticker-Schwemme
(The sticker flood is on its way)
Newspaper | Tages-Anzeiger
Date | 15.11.2016
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | abbreviations, emojis, Facebook, language threat, marketing, social media
Summary | Emoticons (f.i. ":-D") and abbreviations (f.i. "LOL") have trickled down from "geek speak" and established themselves in the mainstream. Emojis are nowadays ever present in our digital communication as well as in other arenas such as film or advertising. Now various social media platforms, among them Facebook, offer users various palettes of stickers. They are larger versions of emojis and are sent as an image file rather than included on the keyboard as a letter. Because many sticker palettes need to be purchased, a whole economy is beginning to form: The Japanese messaging app Line has sold over $250 mio worth of stickers last year. We do not need to fear that emojis and co. will replace language as we know it.
Image Description | Commodified emojis in various forms (as balls, as tattoos, as bed sheets, as food, on clothing, as masks, etc.) and Facebook messenger chats using/purchasing sticker collections.
Image Tags | emojis, Facebook, male(s), social media
Die Qual der Wahl
(The agony of choice)
Newspaper | Sonntagszeitung
Date | 9.10.2016
Language | German
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | emojis
Summary | A new iOS app called "Emoji" allows users to vote on which new emojis should become available. Front runners right now are the shush emoji where the index finger is held up to the shushing mouth and the fingers crossed emoji (index and middle finger crossed).
Image Description | N/A
BBC celebrates the Bard...with emoji website!
Newspaper | Daily Mail (UK)
Date | 22.1.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis, language threat
Summary | The BBC wants to introduce Shakespeare to the Millennials while using emojis. However, people have been complaining and accusing the BBC of dumbing down Shakespeare's work for young people. On the website that the BBC launched, when people choose an emoji, one of Shakespeare's quotes appear. The quote is supposed to express the same feeling as the emoji.
Image Description | N/A
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