{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"","title":"Emoji Bosses","description":"There are many ways to preserve language. We trace the story of Australia’s first Indigenous emoji project, which is bringing Indigenous culture and the Arrernte language onto your smartphone. In the process we encounter emoji’s bosses and find out why it is so hard to add a new emoji to the set.
Disconnect is a podcast about the internet in remote Australian Aboriginal communities. Produced by
RMIT University, led by Ellie Rennie, Indigo Holcombe-James and Tyson Yunkaporta, with producer James Milsom and production assistance from Campbell McNolty. Additional research assistance for this episode was provided by Sam Kininmonth. Disconnect was funded by Telstra as an action within their
Reconciliation Action Plan 2018-2021.
In this episode you heard from:
Joel Liddle Perrurle, Indigemoji
Caddie Brain, Indigemoji
Dr Kate Miltner, University of Edinburgh
Graham Wilfred Jr, inDigiMOB
Music prior to credits: Blackfellas by
Nooky, licensed courtesy of Australian Broadcasting Corporation
You can download the Indigemoji sticker set now for
iOS and
Android
First Nations Media Australia is the national peak body for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander media industry.
There is a Māori emoji set too. Check out
Emotiki developed by Te Puia in Rotorua, NZ.
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