In 2015, the Oxford English Dictionary declared the "Face with Tears of Joy" emoji its Word of the Year, an event that marked ...

Companies in South Africa are being urged to address the use of emojis in the workplace due to potential misinterpretations.

Emojis are often used in messages What does the upside-down smiley face mean? The upside-down smiley emoji tends to be used in a sarcastic sense. The emoji is a flipped version of the usual smile ...

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

The classic smiley face emoji now means something completely different to those under 30. Instead of conveying happiness, the grinning yellow face is now seen as dismissive, passive-aggressive, or ...

To millennials, the ubiquitous smiling face emoji usually means something good, a positive sentiment, or happy emotions. Gen Zers have a very different take.

Open any Gen Z group chat and it might read like pure emoji chaos: (, ). To outsiders, it’s baffling. To them, it’s a whole ...

Waving hand, smiley face, thumbs up. Word of Mouth's Michael Rosen and Dr Laura Wright have been looking at emoji - possibly the world's first truly global form of communication. Here are some ...

Dubai: One afternoon in 2016, I received a smiley face emoji under one of my WeChat Moments post. WeChat Moments is a Chinese social media platform that is similar to Facebook, but the post ...

Your Emoji Style Is Making You Look Bad to Your Younger Team Members Science says you should avoid these common emoji mistakes at work.

The evolution from the smiley face to emojis took a detour in the 1980s with emoticons, melding “emotion” and “icon” (a word similar to “emoji” conceptually but not etymologically). All emoticons are ...