Israeli museum explains the emojis of ancient Egypt
How does an academic explain the importance of ancient hieroglyphics to modern audiences glued to their phones? Through the cunning use of emojis.
How does an academic explain the importance of ancient hieroglyphics to modern audiences glued to their phones? Through the cunning use of emojis.
Archaeology
Dec 21, 2019
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When the Oxford English Dictionary declared an emoji its 2015 word of the year, it was a bit of a head-scratcher.
Internet
Feb 10, 2016
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Gender, culture, and age all appear to play a role in how emojis are interpreted, according to a study published in PLOS ONE by Yihua Chen, Xingchen Yang and colleagues from the University of Nottingham, UK.
Social Sciences
Feb 14, 2024
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Text messages and social media posts that contain yellow emojis are seen as having been written by white people, a study suggests.
Social Sciences
Jun 30, 2021
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Take heart, 45-year-olds who have no idea what that string of skulls or pandas means in a text.
Internet
May 4, 2017
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Before Millennials were over laugh-cry emojis, they were the most used emojis across the world, according to researchers at USC. The emoji was more popular than smiley faces say researchers who categorized millions of tweets ...
Social Sciences
Jul 14, 2021
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Users of the Apple iPhone and iPad got a new palate of emoji on Wednesday, including a group of alternative or gay family illustrations.
Software
Apr 8, 2015
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We have a smiling pile of poop. What about one that's sad?
Internet
Dec 29, 2017
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Taking the emotional temperature of your co-workers is easier when you spend your days in an office. Bursts of laughter, uncomfortable body language and flashes of anger are easy to see when you sit across the table from ...
Social Sciences
Jan 26, 2022
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At least 230 new emoji, when different skin tones and genders are included, are due to be released this year. That's a leap on 2018 when only 157 emoji were added to the Unicode Standard – the code used to support emoji ...
Internet
Feb 8, 2019
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