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Emoji. What are they? Where did they come from? If a picture is worth a thousand words, how do you know which thousand words? Kevin and Christie discuss all things emoji.
Links for this episode:
- How emoji conquered the world
The story of the smiley face from the man who invented it - ?_? Disapproval Look
All the looks of disapproval you could ever want, in one place. - The birth of emoticons
Emoticons made a discreet entrance, arriving in print for the first time in this March 30, 1881 issue of Puck magazine. The small item in the middle of this page gives four examples of ‘typographical art’ – joy, melancholy, indifference, and astonishment. - Copy Paste Character
A web and iPhone application for copying the ‘hidden’ characters that comes with the computer’s typefaces, to be pasted into emails, tweets, text documents, forums and whatever else you might need to spice up with an extra ?, ? or, ?. - Txtng is killing language. JK!!!
Does texting mean the death of good writing skills? John McWhorter posits that there’s much more to texting — linguistically, culturally — than it seems, and it’s all good news. - Narratives in Emoji
Class participation will be 30% of your grade. iPhones and gmail required. 10-page paper on the dancing ghost will be due at the end of the semester. - Apple and Google engineers are trying to make emoji more diverse
Emoji have a diversity problem, but it looks like Apple and Google are on the way to fixing it. Emoji are all standardized by the Unicode Consortium, and the consortium this week is publishing a new proposal for how emoji should be displayed that includes support for different skin tones.
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