Anyone can submit an idea for a new emoji. The Unicode Standard -- a universal character encoding standard -- is responsible ...

This is my personal favorite and the heart emoji I use most often. I like to think of it as the heart with jazz hands—a demonstrative, over-the-top, sparkly love. When to use: When you want to ...

Your favourite emoji might not mean what you think it does. A forensic linguist explains how these seemingly innocent symbols could have legal and social implications.

But are we really saying what we mean? “Some ‘universal’ facial emotions may not be ‘universal’ when they transfer to emoji,” according to researchers at the University of Nottingham ...

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 ...