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Emoji
October 23, 2019
Magazine
Micah Hauser
Picturing the Future
How a shadowy consortium controls the evolution of emoji
July 31, 2017
Clio Chang
The Emoji Deserves Better Than
The Emoji Movie
Perhaps the greatest crime of this widely panned movie is that it thinks emojis are for kids.
December 18, 2015
Emma Foehringer Merchant
Adopt an Emoji is the Name a Star for the technological age.
May 26, 2015
Vyvyan Evans
There’s Nothing Lazy About Using Emojis to Communicate
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