The use of emojis in text messaging improves perceived responsiveness and thereby enhances closeness and relationship ...

What it communicates, above all, is the hopeless unhipness of its sender. I use it anyway, mostly out of habit but also ...

New study shows emojis boost how caring and responsive you seem—helping friendships thrive, even through text.

Will covering your child’s face with an emoji actually protect their privacy? - IN FOCUS: Plenty of parents see covering up ...

The alternative and deeper meanings humans attribute to emojis were explored at the Judicial Conduct Tribunal hearing for ...

Sentiment analysis on social media suggests that certain emoji and internet acronyms are now falling out of favor, either being used less frequently, or attracting negative comments.. Top of the ...

Here's a handy glossary of heart emoji meanings for every communication style, according to an actual emoji expert With an endless array of emojis at our fingertips—and new ones constantly ...

But your trepidation about which emoji skin tone to use has evidently weighed on many white people's minds since 2015, when the Unicode Consortium—the mysterious organization that sets standards ...

We’ve all probably used an emoji as code for a word that we didn’t want to actually type out at one point in our lives. Now it seems that anti-vaxxers have turned to this method to avoid ...

Coded language is nothing new—but the scale at which it can be deployed via social media is essentially unprecedented.Observers often compare online content moderation to games of Whack-a-Mole ...

Up until 2016, the Rose emoji only had two days in the sun: Mothers' Day and Valentines' Day. Since before the election of 2016, however, rose emoji began popping up in droves on social media, not ...

The watermelon emoji has been popular among people supporting Palestinians while trying to evade what they argue is suppression of their speech on social media. An emoji of a red and green ...