the Smiley brand turns 50. Over that time, the iconic smiling face and its many emoticon descendants have brought an attitude of ‘defiant optimism’ to a dizzying array of different partnerships, ...

Scott Fahlman, programmer and retired professor at Carnegie Mellon University, was the first documented person to use the emoticons :-) and :-(when proposing the sequence of characters to mark ...

In the digital age, using emoji makes us more effective communicators. We’re better able to express our emotional selves and better able to signal our personality. It stands to reason then that ...