Gen Z is rewriting the emoji rulebook, and it's stumping everyone else. Why it matters: Roughly 80% of U.S. adults say ...

A Natural History of Emoji' by Keith Houston "Emoji blew up right around 2011," said Laura Miller in Slate, and we're lucky ...

Apple and Samsung brought nine new emoji to their devices this year with the releases of iOS 18.4 and One UI 7. The new emoji ...

The evolution from the smiley face to emojis took a detour in the 1980s with emoticons, melding “emotion” and “icon” (a word similar to “emoji” conceptually but not etymologically). All emoticons are ...

Of course the smiley face wasn’t always just an emoji. It actually has a steeper history that’s older than any Gen Z. According to The Guardian, the smiley face was invented in 1963 “as a ...

Emoji add a new depth to communications, but what of their cultural impact? Keith Houston's Face with Tears of Joy offers ...

GAINESVILLE, Ga. - A snake breeder in Georgia is receiving s-s-so much attention for a rare ball python he sold for $6,000 with the shape of three smiley faces on its body. Justin Kobylka of J ...

It is actually in recent magistrate’s court rulings that we are seeing, in particular instances, that the sending of a thumbs-up emoji in response to a business quote constitutes “acceptance ...

Halverson: We found that emoji and emoticons definitely added new information. Almost all of them were adding some context. Primarily, that was emotional, like emotive disambiguation.