This page provides background information about emoji,
including Media Articles and the Keynote from the 38th Internationalization
& Unicode Conference. For more information, see Unicode Emoji and the main press page.
There’s been considerable media attention to emoji in
2014. For example, there were some 6,000 articles on the emoji
appearing in Unicode 7.0, according to Google News. Here are
some examples of news about emoji:
| Date |
Source |
Title |
| 2015-01-29 |
CNNMoney |
Taco
Bell: Emoji unfairly biased towards hamburger and pizza
lovers |
| 2015-01-28 |
Daily Mail
(MailOnline) |
Are
these the first EMOTICONS? Typographical faces in an 1881
magazine reveal joy, indifference and astonishment |
| 2015-01-28 |
New York Times |
At
Silk Road Trial, Lawyers Fight to Include Evidence They
Call Vital: Emoji |
| 2015-01-26 |
Business Insider |
An
Artist Created These Stunningly Accurate Celebrity
Portraits Using Nothing But Emojis |
| 2015-01-26 |
The Guardian |
The
rise of the emoji for brand marketing: Take an emoji crash
course and discover how you can successfully incorporate
them into brand messaging |
| 2015-01-21 |
Tech Cocktail |
The
State of the Union Written in Emoji |
| 2015-01-11 |
Popsugar |
19
Emoji You Wish Existed |
| 2015-01-08 |
Daily Mail
(MailOnline) |
Guy
Pearce versus Emoji: Watch acclaimed Hollywood actor
recreate popular emoticons with hilarious results |
| 2015-01-05 |
Los Angeles Times |
Taco
Bell really, really wants a taco emoji |
| 2015-01-01 |
NPR |
Heart
Emoji Got Much Attention In 2014: The Global Language
Monitor's Top Word of 2014 is not a word, it's an emoji of
a heart. |
| 2014-12-30 |
The Atlantic |
Literally,'
Emojis, and Other Trends That Aren't Destroying English:
Steven Pinker on Grammar Feuds and the Oxford Comma |
| 2014-12-30 |
The Telegraph |
How
2014 became the year of the emoji (tiny aubergine anyone?) |
| 2014-12-30 |
Yahoo! Finance
(Entrepreneur) |
For
the First Time, an Emoji Has Been Named the Most Popular
Word of the Year |
| 2014-12-29 |
Marketwatch |
The
ultimate guide to market emojis: When markets are moving,
who has time for words? |
| 2014-12-29 |
Mirror Online |
Emoji
take over the world as <3 is named international word of
the year |
| 2014-12-18 |
ClickZ |
Marketing
With Emojis: Brands are beginning to embrace the visual
power of marketing with emojis. |
| 2014-12-16 |
The Daily Dot |
Emoji
science with Jessica Williams of 'The Daily Show' |
| 2014-12-14 |
Salon |
“Saturday
Night Live” brilliantly lampoons lack of diversity in tech |
| 2014-12-13 |
Mashable |
Bill
Nye explains evolution using emoji |
| 2014-12-13 |
whatculture |
20
Awesome New Emojis Coming To Smartphones In 2015: How on
Earth will we use them? |
| 2014-12-13 |
Wired |
What
Makes Texts Feel Like Real Communication? The Smiling Poo
Emoji |
| 2014-12-12 |
Dallas Morning News |
More
than 17,000 people signed an online petition to get a taco
emoji in 2015 |
| 2014-12-10 |
Black Enterprise |
Apple
and Google Introducing Ethnic Emojis: A new set of
guidelines from Google and Apple could lead to more diverse
faces |
| 2014-12-10 |
On the Media |
UNICODE,
OPHIUCHUS, AND A SURPRISINGLY GOTH EMOJI POEM |
| 2014-12-01 |
Fast Company |
How
Emoji Is Changing Text As We Know It: Emoji are so popular
that the gatekeepers of computer text have had to evolve
their thinking to keep up. |
| 2014-11-29 |
VentureBeat |
Visual
listening is the next big thing in social. Here’s why. |
| 2014-11-27 |
The Guardian |
The
problem with emojis |
| 2014-11-24 |
Cosmopolitan |
Where
Do Your Favorite Emoji Come From? |
| 2014-11-23 |
unwire.hk |
Unicode
機構選出 37 個候選 Emoji 明年中用得到 |
| 2014-11-21 |
Ballantines |
Ballantine's
Whisky Emoji - Submission Film |
| 2014-11-20 |
Dazed & Confused |
Unicode
Consortium announces 37 potential new emojis |
| 2014-11-20 |
SugarScape |
FINALLY:
a list of 37 new emojis have been revealed —THERE'S A
UNICORN |
| 2014-11-19 |
DroidApp.nl |
37
nieuwe emoticons die we in 2015 kunnen verwachten |
| 2014-11-19 |
FastFoodWatch |
Do
We Need A Taco Emoji? Taco Bell Thinks So |
| 2014-11-18 |
Buzzfeed |
There
Are 37 New Emojis Being Considered And One Is A Taco: Other
highlights include “face with rolling eyes” and a crab |
| 2014-11-18 |
Details |
Don't
Freak Out, but We Might Get a Taco Emoji in 2015: This is
going to make planning dinner with your roommate so much
easier |
| 2014-11-18 |
Die Welt |
Emoji
– Die Entwicklung des Emotionen-Alphabets |
| 2014-11-18 |
El Mundo |
¿Cómo
llegamos a responder a una pregunta con una flamenca? La
historia del emoticono |
| 2014-11-18 |
Fast Company |
Behold:
The Taco Emoji — Also up for induction into Unicode 8.0: A
hot dog, a burrito, and a poppin' bottle. |
| 2014-11-18 |
Fast Company |
The
Oral History Of The Poop Emoji (Or, How Google Brought Poop
To America) |
| 2014-11-18 |
Huffington Post |
Why
We Never Got Those 250 New Emoji We Were Promised |
| 2014-11-18 |
iDigitalTimes |
New
Emojis For Next Year May Include Taco, Hotdog, Burrito And
More |
| 2014-11-18 |
Mashable |
The
37 new emoji candidates that we could see next year
(including tacos) |
| 2014-11-18 |
The Atlantic |
And
Lo, a Taco Emoji Appeared Among Them |
| 2014-11-16 |
New York Magazine |
Smile,
You’re Speaking EMOJI: The rapid evolution of a wordless
tongue |
| 2014-11-10 |
Bustle |
Racially
Diverse Emojis May Finally Be Here, and It's About Time
[Thumbs Up Emoji] |
| 2014-11-10 |
Storify |
Unicode
Consortium To Introduce Racially Diverse Emoji |
| 2014-11-07 |
BBC Newsbeat |
Emoji
news: Work out the stories from the pictures |
| 2014-11-07 |
GadgetGestures |
Emojis
are Becoming More Human With Enhanced Skin-Tone Options |
| 2014-11-06 |
Dolly |
Racially
diverse emojis are on their way |
| 2014-11-06 |
Politiken |
Mobiler
får multi-etniske smileyer efter protester |
| 2014-11-05 |
Android Authority |
Google
& Apple want to add racial diversity to emoji
characters |
| 2014-11-05 |
blackpressUSA |
Emojis
May Expand Skin Color Options |
| 2014-11-05 |
Bloomberg Businessweek |
Non-White
Emoji Are Finally Coming |
| 2014-11-05 |
CTV News |
Get
ready for ethnically diverse emoji characters |
| 2014-11-05 |
Deutsche Welle |
Will
emojis finally look like the people who send them? |
| 2014-11-05 |
Marketplace |
Everything
you've ever wanted to know about emoji |
| 2014-11-05 |
Newsday |
Consortium
proposes adding diversity to emoji icons |
| 2014-11-04 |
ABC News |
Why
Emoji Icons May Soon Look More Like You |
| 2014-11-04 |
Buzzfeed |
Black
Emojis Might Finally Be On The Way |
| 2014-11-04 |
Los Angeles Times |
Emoji
could be getting some racial diversity |
| 2014-11-04 |
Mashable |
Emoji
finally get some racial diversity |
| 2014-11-04 |
Mic |
The
Biggest Problem With Emojis May Soon Be Solved |
| 2014-11-04 |
New York Magazine |
Rejoice!
Emoji Realizes Nonwhite People Exist |
| 2014-11-04 |
Opus Magazine |
Emoji
finally get some racial diversity |
| 2014-11-04 |
Streetwise Media |
Racial
Diversity Is Coming to Emojis |
| 2014-11-04 |
Tech News Today |
Emoji
are getting authentic skin color! |
| 2014-11-04 |
The Verge |
Apple
and Google engineers are trying to make emoji more diverse |
| 2014-10-27 |
VentureBeat |
Microsoft’s
Bing beats Google to emoji search |
| 2014-10-21 |
Business Insider |
Scientists
Describe Their Work In Emoji And The Results Are Hilarious |
| 2014-10-17 |
Business Insider |
The
Entire US Economy Depicted In Emoji |
| 2014-10-10 |
Hubspot |
Emojis
for Dummies: The Essential Translation Guide |
| 2014-09-11 |
Gizmodo |
My
Day on the Emoji-Only Social Network, Translated (I Think) |
| 2014-09-08 |
Spiegel |
Emoji-Siegeszug:
Die Weltsprache unserer Zeit |
| 2014-09-04 |
Huffington Post |
You
Can Now Use Emojis To Search On Yelp, And It’s Not As
Pointless As It Sounds |
| 2014-09-03 |
Mashable |
Why
It's So Hard to Design New Emoji |
| 2014-08-29 |
The Atlantic |
My
Week on the All-Emoji Diet |
| 2014-08-27 |
PCWorld |
The
future of emoticons will embrace everyone |
| 2014-08-25 |
USA Today |
Emoji:
Passing fad or new universal language? |
| 2014-08-20 |
The New Inquiry |
The
Conservatism of Emoji |
| 2014-07-25 |
New York Times |
The
Emoji Have Won the Battle of Words |
| 2014-07-17 |
Aspire |
Are
Emoji Ruining (or Improving) Digital Communication? |
| 2014-07-17 |
Time |
Here
Are Rules of Using Emoji You Didn't Know You Were
Following |
| 2014-07-15 |
Dissolve Footage |
Emoji
Among Us: The Documentary |
| 2014-07-01 |
Mashable |
14
People Really Mad There's No Canadian Flag Emoji |
| 2014-06-30 |
Fast Company |
Where
Do Emoji Come From? |
| 2014-06-30 |
NPR |
Why
140 Characters, When One Will Do? Tracing The Emoji
Evolution |
| 2014-06-27 |
Huffington Post |
How
Emoji Get Lost In Translation |
| 2014-06-27 |
New Republic |
A
Peek Inside the Non-Profit Consortium That Makes Emoji
Possible |
| 2014-06-25 |
The Atlantic |
Emoji
Are Designed to Be More Permanent Than Countries |
| 2014-06-25 |
The Wall Street
Journal |
There’s
No Hot Dog Emoji, but New Characters Do Include a Hot
Pepper |
| 2014-06-19 |
Mashable |
Who
Controls Emoji Anyway? |
| 2014-06-18 |
Vogue |
The
9 Emoji You Didn’t Know You Needed |
| 2014-06-17 |
CBC News |
250
new emojis include middle finger, Vulcan salute, no racial
diversity |
| 2014-06-17 |
CommitStrip |
Unicode
7 et ses nouveaux emoji |
| 2014-06-17 |
Technology Tell |
The
15 best emojis in Unicode 7.0 |
| 2014-06-17 |
The Inquirer |
Unicode
gives Emoji the one finger salute |
| 2014-06-17 |
Vox |
Where
Emoji come from |
| 2014-06-16 |
Yahoo |
More
Than 250 New Emoji, Including a Middle Finger, Are Coming
Soon |
| 2014-04-30 |
TUAW |
You
may be accidentally sending friends a hairy heart emoji |
| 2014-04-24 |
CNET Japan |
携帯各社、キャリアメールとSMSの絵文字数を共通化--5月から698文字に |
| 2014-04-08 |
Marketplace |
You
can now search Yelp for emojis |
| 2014-04-02 |
The Verge |
Emoji
invades Twitter on the web |
| 2014-04-02 |
Wired |
Game
of Thrones Fans, Here’s Your Season Three Recap – In Emoji |
| 2014-04-01 |
Huffington Post |
Google
Chrome Prank Translates Every Single Word Into Emoji |
| 2014-03-31 |
The Colbert Report |
Emoji
Ethnicity |
| 2014-03-26 |
ABC News |
Why
Hot Dog and Taco Emojis Probably Aren’t In Your Future |
| 2014-03-25 |
The Wall Street
Journal |
Emoji
Origins |
| 2014-03-25 |
The Wall Street
Journal |
Hot-Dog
Fan Campaigns for New Emoji |
| 2013-12-31 |
Know Your Meme |
Emoticons |
| 2013-03-04 |
The Verge |
How
emoji conquered the world |
| 2012-01-25 |
Typographica |
Typeface
Review: Apple Color Emoji |
People have also written online tools for seeing usage of
emoji, such as Emoji Tracker and
animations such as emoji.zone. It’s also become
popular to “translate” lyrics or sayings into the closest
emoji, such as:
The keynote at the 38th Internationalization & Unicode
Conference was about emoji, and may be of some interest. The
videos of the keynote were created live using Hangouts On Air,
and split into 3 pieces for uploading. (These were not
professionally produced, and thus still have some verbal
missteps.) The slides
for the keynote are also accessible—use the gear icon to get
the speaker notes.
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