Face with Tears of Joy review: New book is an illuminating but flawed look at the impact of emojis

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Standardising the look of the irrepressible emoji must have been tricky

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Face with Tears of Joy
Keith Houston (W. W. Norton)

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then what of emoji, that ever-increasingly important part of our lexicon? Face with Tears of Joy: A natural history of emoji by Keith Houston has some insights, as it charts the story of these odd characters and how they infiltrated daily communications.

A history of emoji, where they came from and how they came to dominate our discourse is much needed,…



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