http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/11/emojis-rapid-evolution.html
A more extended article from NY Magazine about the growing usage of emoji, and the ways in which that usage is developing. Has a quote from Peter Constable and (indirect) reference to +Steven R. Loomis. “IT’S EASY TO DISMISS EMOJI. They are, at first glance, ridiculous. They are a small invasive cartoon army of faces and vehicles and flags and food and symbols trying to topple the millennia-long reign of words. Emoji are intended to illustrate, or in some cases replace altogether, the words we send each other digitally, whether in a text message, email, or tweet. Taken together, emoji look like the electronic equivalent of those puffy stickers tweens used to ornament their Trapper Keepers. And yet...”
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