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

From expressing joy to conveying sadness, emojis have become an indispensable tool in modern-day conversations. Thus, to celebrate these humble characters, the world celebrates Emoji Day on July 17 ...

An emoji relative, the emoticon, which combines keyboard characters to make simple pictorial symbols, first appeared in 1982: A Carnegie Mellon computer scientist proposed ... Doing so required the ...