Emoji, the little icons and characters that you send and receive every day, fall under the jurisdiction of the Unicode Consortium. The Consortium is the organization responsible for maintaining ...

“As a visual language emoji has already far eclipsed hieroglyphics, its ancient Egyptian precursor which took centuries to develop,” he said. It’s the “fastest growing form of language in ...

There are already hundreds of tiny faces, people, animals, objects and more in the ever-growing emoji library, but what happens when you need to express more specific emotions with emoji?

Avid texters will soon have a new way to talk about the growing impacts of climate change: an emoji depicting a tree without leaves. Approval of the emoji was revealed in an update earlier this ...

Moreover, as emoji grow more popular, they may grow more conventionalised, and as such the plausible deniability one gains from using them may decrease over time. Communication online (barring video ...

and the Facemoji report found that overall usage continues to grow. Last year the Unicode Consortium, the non-profit organisation responsible for emoji development, announced 37 new emojis ...