Talk:Emoji/Archives/2019/February

Emoji skin colour modifiers

Research I carried out at the University of Edinburgh, that showed how people use emoji skin colours that closely match their own skin. Plus, Twitter users with darker skin use emoji with skin colour modifiers more often than people with lighter skin. And there is little evidence for wide-spread abuse involving skin-coloured emoji.

The paper is here: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1803.10738.pdf

National Geographic wrote an article on the topic and it was also covered by the BBC and The Telegraph

I didn't want to add anything about this to the article (under the section on skin color) since I was involved in the research, so I thought I'd leave it up to someone else to decide whether it was worth adding. Alexander Duncan Robertson (talk) 14:29, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

Yeah, I agree :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.215.164.80 (talk) 10:27, 5 February 2019 (UTC)