Two activists want the Unicode Consortium to add the American Sign Language handshape for "I love you" to Unicode 9.

Italian art director Giorgio Mininno recently used emoji to help teach Chinese students about art, even though he couldn't speak a word of their language. "The emoji helped them to find new ideas ...

The word emoji is a combination of the Japanese for picture and character. As the Museum of Modern Art attests of the almighty emoji, “Filling in for body language, they reassert the human ...

Attempting to create a universal glyph-based language for human beings in the digital age is a noble endeavor. But unfortunately, the entity behind our semi-ubiquitious emoji system, Unicode ...

Emoji may seem like a new language (and an ideographic one at that) to people who don't use them natively. "Adolescents are the real movers and shakers in linguistic change," says Penelope Eckert ...

As of last week, there are now 3,053 emoji, counting the 230 just approved for this year’s cohort—yes, the icons now get annual releases, like Microsoft Word or tax returns. As a white man ...

Emoji, the silly little pictorials that fill digital communication, are a fun way to deliver a message for many people. But for those who want to be enshrined in the cultural annals of face-palm ...

This is not your typical 9-to-5 job. A global translation firm based in London is hiring what it says will be the world's first official "emoji translator." The job advertisement, which was posted ...

An open source project will make emoji work everywhere and in any configuration. World Changing Ideas Awards Early-Rate Deadline This Friday, 11/15. ... Emoji Is Finally A Universal Language.