The New Emoji of Unicode 14.0 Are Coming Soon
Emoji 14.0 has includes quite a few new Emoji which will be coming soon to smartphones everywhere! Unicode 14 has arrived, and the Unicode foundation has confirmed the addition of all …
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New Emoji Released!
Emoji 12.0 has been released with 59 new emoji! The new emoji in the set are listed in Emoji Recently Added v12.0, with sample images. The new Emoji typically start showing …
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New Year, New Emoji!
Unicode 12.0 will be released! Unicode has selected March 5 as the release date for Unicode 12.0. This is when the final emoji list for 2019 will be published (Emoji 12.0 is currently …
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Lets decode the mystery of Snapchat’s Emoji
Today we will decode the mystery of Snapchat’s Emoji Status! Business Insider Snapchat, the company that’s logo looks remarkably similar to the Ghost Emoji, uses these “friend emojis,” to help you …
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Can Computers “Get” Emoji? EmojiNet Says YES!
“Having access to EmojiNet can help computers to interpret the meaning of emoji.” -Sanjaya Wijeratne Sorry Freud. But when it come to emoji, a cigar isn’t always a cigar (if there was, …
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What Is Your Meyers-Briggs Emoji?
Ever stay awake at night wondering which Emoji encapsulates your Meyers-Briggs personality type? Yeah, me too. For the unexperienced, the Meyer-Briggs Type Indicator personality inventory is a series of questions …
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Emoji Insights: How Emoji express heterosexism
I was out to dinner last night with a group of friends, with a large spectrum of sexual orientations: straight, gay, lesbian, and flexible. We got to talking about how it was often hard for women, trans people, or bisexuals in a relationship to be taken seriously, or to even be seen as “gay” by others. More often than not, most bars and clubs for the queer community cater to gay men with the off ladies night. Moreover, unless women look and or dress a certain way (like Ellen) they are often not considered “Gay Enough.” They become invisible and overlooked and even denied their relationship status by many people. How does this relate to emoji?
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Emoji Research
As we move into using abstracted modes of communication such as texts, tweets, and Emoji, we should examine, meditate upon and explore the impact this communication upon our ability to connect with each other. By highlighting Emoji as creative medium we start to unpack the millions of Emoji texts and messages sent every day, and what might be emerging as a meaning-making tool beyond the chat log. The World Translation Foundation explores Emoji as an emergent visual language. WTF believes that words often get in the way of expressing how we feel. WTF is one part web project, one part tongue and cheek art movement, and two parts serious scholarship. Words can be cumbersome and misleading, and worst of all, they change from country to country. WTF addresses these issues through the form of Emoji art focused website as well as a database driven, crowd-sourced English to Emoji dictionary.
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