Most of our communication online is typed – emails, text messages, Facebook and Twitter. But typing has no facial expressions, no tone of voice. No nuance. So, maybe it was inevitable that somebody ...

It's the most wonderful time ... of the month. That's right ladies and gentlemen, it is time for your monthly Emoji Power Rankings. We have seen some serious shake ups in the world of emojis as we've ...

Editor’s note: Professor Vyvyan Evans is an internationally renowned expert on language and digital communication. He has published 14 books on language, meaning and mind. This is an edited excerpt ...

Much of the world’s information may now be saved in the virtual cloud, but the first data-storage systems were simple drawings like this: . Humans have been using images to communicate for millennia, ...

Mosquitoes are coming. The Unicode Consortium has just announced that alongside your smiling face – or perhaps crying face – emoji you’ll soon be able to add a mosquito. The mosquito emoji will join ...

Ethan Pancer receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Lindsay McShane receives funding from The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. Carleton ...

Most of our communication online is typed – emails, text messages, Facebook and Twitter. But typing has no facial expressions, no tone of voice. No nuance. So, maybe it was inevitable that somebody ...

There are no sure things in life but death and taxes. Until this month, we thought that it was also a sure thing that the Smiling Poo emoji would forever reign supreme atop our Power Rankings. Yes, ...