Recently, text dominated each chat window. Then small digital icons came along and redefined how we communicate. These little pictures have become a worldwide visual language, akin to video subtitles.

Although Shigetaka Kurita is often credited as the original emoji creator, the story is more complex and nuanced – and what better time to tell this story than following World Emoji Day, which takes ...

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Love them or judge them, emojis have become a full-fledged language of their own. We use them to express joy 😂, confusion 🤔, exhaustion 😩, and even passive-aggressive support 👏👏👏. Recent stats ...

Tension: Organizations celebrate emoji use as evidence of psychological safety while workers deploy them strategically to ...

At a time when in-person conversations are harder to come by, many people are choosing to express their thoughts about 🦠 with a practical mix of 😷 and 🛒. But perhaps no emoji has come to embody the ...