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The Emoji Bible has arrived ... and (face with halo emoji) has yet to declare it (OK hand sign emoji)
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 30.5.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis, translation
Summary | The Bible has been translated into emoji. It includes 3,300 pages and is intended for millennials.
Image Description | Screenshots of tweets from @BibleEmoji
Image Tags | emojis, Twitter
Water pistol emoji replaces revolver as Apple enters gun violence debate
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 2.8.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis
Summary | Apple decided to replace the gun emoji with a water gun emoji after several shootings that took place in the US. People commented on the change and said that changing the emoji was not going to resolve the gun violence problem.
Image Description | Water gun emoji and gun emoji, and screenshots of tweets.
Image Tags | emojis, Twitter
New emojis to include breastfeeding, a hijab and the lotus position
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 12.11.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis
Summary | 56 new emojis will be released (e.g. bearded man, sandwich, face vomiting, woman wearing a hijab). However, there is still a lack of redhead emojis.
Image Description | Different versions of the hijab emoji, and screenshots of tweets about the hijab emoji and the lack of ginger emojis.
Image Tags | emojis, Twitter
We all love to (face with tears of joy emoji) and the French are (broken heart emoji): what we learned about emojis at SXSW
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 13.3.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis
Summary | SwiftKey found that 70% of emojis are used to express a positive feeling; this might be because we want to present a positive image of ourselves to other people. Linguist Gretchen McCulloch said that emojis are the “fourth quadrant” of communication -writing has now an informal part. The author of the article then goes on to present facts and numbers about emojis that were presented at SXSW.
Image Description | Photograph of a screen with 4 rows of emojis,
Image Tags | emojis
Eight of the most pointless emojis, from (curly loop emoji) to (orange diamond emoji)
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 8.1.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis
Summary | Emojis are everywhere and many people uses this visual language every day. However, some of the pictograms are useless (e.g. hole, levitating man in suit, curly loop, anger, large orange diamond, pager, round pin, and up-side down face.
Image Description | Chart with 176 emojis, and pictures of the useless emojis.
Image Tags | emojis
Sign of the times: London company advertises for 'emoji translator'
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 14.12.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis, translation
Summary | A translation company in London is looking for an emoji translator to help deal with issues related to the world's fastest-growing language. The field of emoji translation is booming and nowadays, softwares dominate the field. However, softwares can't recognize cultural differences in emoji usage.
Image Description | Digital image representing 8 emojis
Image Tags | emojis
Everything's peachy as Apple restores emoji's 'bum' features
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 16.11.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis
Summary | With the new iOS update, Apple users saw that the peach emoji (that looked like a bum) changed into an emoji that looked more like a "real" peach. After people complained, Apple finally replaced the new emoji with the old peach-bum emoji. Since there is no other emoji that users can use to represent a bum, the peach emoji is important. People also use the eggplant emoji to represent a penis.
Image Description | Photograph of a real peach, and image of the different versions of the peach emoji.
Image Tags | emojis
Emoji diversity: how 'silly little faces' can make a big difference
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 7.11.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis, research/study
Summary | San Francisco hosted the first Emojicon conference, where people could participate in different sessions (e.g Emoji karaoke, translation of songs into emojis, emoji spellcasting, etc.). Emojis are everywhere and users feel attached to them. They were even considered as art (they joined the MoMa in New York). However, the rise of emoji has led to cultural problems; people want emojis to represent the world's diversity. A researcher wanted to find out why the first emojis were not diverse. She said that the first emojis actually aligned with the belief that technology is neutral.
Image Description | Photograph of two smartphone with emojis on their screen, photograph of the emojibator next to an emoji pillow, image of the original set of 176 emojis, and set of emoji faces in different skin colors
Image Tags | emojis
Décoder le langage Emoji
(Decoding the emoji language )
Newspaper | Le Matin
Date | 22.1.2016
Language | French
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | emojis, misunderstanding
Summary | Emojis are everywhere. They are used to symbolize emotions, but their meaning is not always clear. In the game "The Great Emoji Challenge", people have to decode messages in emoji. They can win up to one million dollars.
Image Description | Smiling emoji, and money bag emoji
Image Tags | emojis
Apple se mouille
(Apple gets wet)
Newspaper | Le Matin
Date | 15.9.2016
Language | French
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | emojis
Summary | With its iOS 10 update, Apple removed the gun emoji, and replaced it with a water gun. So now violence has of course been eradicated, no one has been killed by a gun, and everyone loves each other. Thanks to Apple, corpses have been replaced by wet T-shirt contests.
Image Description | Images of the gun emoji and the water gun emoji
Image Tags | emojis
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