From friendly smiley faces to cheeky aubergines, emoji now form a staple part of many people's daily messages. But despite their prevalence, people are only just realising what one popular character ...

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Today there are north of 3,500 accepted emoji characters. They appear in politics, movies, texts, our sex lives, and more. But emoji’s impact has never been explored in full. Keith Houston follows ...

Shigetaka Kurita, the inventor of emoji, draws his original smiley face emoji (courtesy Emma Griffiths PR) If Picture Character, a new documentary from directors Martha Shane and Ian Cheney, had ...

Historian Houston (Empire of the Sum) chronicles the rise of the emoji in this fun romp through the evolution of digital language. He begins the account in Japan, where teenagers’ widespread use of ...