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Given their focus on representing diversity in gender, sexuality, ethnicity and culture, the new emoji certainly offer opportunities for new conversations, says Jennifer Fane, associate lecturer in health and early childhood education at the Flinders University (Australia). Das also says it will be an amazing feeling for people with disabilities to finally be represented in something that is used so commonly to express emotion.
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"If young people get accustomed to seeing such emojis on a daily basis, it subconsciously increases awareness about diversity in them," she says. The new, more diverse and inclusive emoji can have an important educational role, says Meena Das, an activist from IN NextGen, a network of college students and recent graduates with disabilities. Emoji's are therefore becoming an essential way for diverse communities to have visibility online, say the authors of "The illustrated history of Emojis", released for World Emoji Day 2020 (July 17). Besides the transgender flag, the new release of emoji for 2020 will include some gender-neutral and gender-inclusive options for emoji that already exist. Trans people had previously made use of the lobster emoji to represent themselves. Furthermore, on January 29th this year the transgender pride flag emoji was finally approved, after years of rejected proposals.
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This release also included gender neutral couples, with mixed skin tones (skin-tone modifiers for other emoji had been available since 2015). In March 2019 Unicode released 59 new emoji (230 if you include modifiers), which included options for varying gender, skin and hair color as well as for people who use hearing devices, prosthetics, a white cane, guide dogs, service dogs, and wheelchairs. Recent releases of emoji by Unicode, for example, have signified a long asked-for improved representation for disability rights and LGBT communities. But emoji can of course mean very different things for different people. At cApStAn we have been exploring the potential of emoji as a developing language for some time and find this an interesting field of research. And the emoji real time tracker on Twitter flashes so fast it comes with an epilepsy warning. The numbers about emoji use are mindboggling: it is estimated that more than 700 million are used every day in Facebook posts alone. By Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village