How an Emoji Becomes an Emoji

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[ UUID ] 9c839019-f091-4c57-bf1f-c110a76a55ad

[ Session Name ] How an Emoji Becomes and Emoji [ Primary Space ] Digital Inclusion [ Secondary Space ] Youth Zone

[ Submitter's Name ] Jennifer Lee [ Submitter's Affiliated Organisation ] Emojination [ Submitter's Github ] @jenny8lee

What will happen in your session?

How exactly does an emoji end up on your phone keyboard? It's actually a tightly regulated process overseen by the Unicode Consortium, the non-profit organization based in Silicon Valley whose members are primarily US tech companies. It takes upwards of 18 months between when an emoji is proposed and when it can end up on your smartphone. A member of the Unicode Emoji Subcommittee and founder of Emojination will walk through the emoji proposal process, including the timelines, and the selection factors involved. Using successful proposals — including the DUMPLING emoji, as well as hijab emoji — the speakers will explain the dos and dont's of the process.

What is the goal or outcome of your session?

Our aim is for people to understand the emoji proposal process, and feel empowered by it. Ideally we'll have folk who will be part of the "normal folks" who write emoji proposals — which is the equivalent of writing a very detailed high school lab report.

If your session requires additional materials or electronic equipment, please outline your needs.

Time needed

60 mins

[phillipadsmith]

Subscribing because I know the presenter, and encouraged them to submit a proposal.

Note: this presenter's travel arrangements will already be covered by MisinfoCon @ MozFest.

[sedgwickkm]

This proposal has progressed to our next phase of deliberation! We will be following up shortly.

[kenyatta1]

@jenny8lee Congratulations! We are very happy to announce that we have accepted your session at the festival this year! We will be in touch with additional information in the coming weeks.