As emoticons and other visual representations of language make their way into traditionally text-based communications such as emails and text messages, Ella Glikson, along with co-authors Arik ...

Today emoticons are so pervasive that behavioral science has taken an active interest in how people use them. Among the evidence (recently surveyed by Roni Jacobson at the great new Science of Us ...

As emoticons and other visual representations of language make their way into traditionally text-based communications such as emails and text messages, Ella Glikson, ...

Emoticons and emoji are changing the way we communicate faster than linguists can keep up with or lexicographers can regulate. “It's the wild west of the emoji era,” said linguist Ben Zimmer ...

Think of them as next-level emoticons, which can often be used together to form a sentence, of sorts, without using any pesky words or face-to-face interactions. media: 19252920.

From :) to ¯\(°_o)/¯, there are now thousands of emoticons, and as Chris Baraniuk discovers, some can even sway our behaviour. It all started with an awkward moment online. In the early 1980s ...

We may not spend a lot of time thinking about the emoticons we insert into our emails and text messages, but it turns out that they reveal something interesting about the way we perceive facial ...

Why do emoticons speak louder than words? The idea of communication, on digital platforms to be specific, is to be able to imitate reality as closely as possible and bring it at par with real time ...

Emoticons: Symbol bashing Hey! ;-) Do those ubiquitous little faces dotting emails and texts make you want to :-0? Don't worry, you're not alone.