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Face with Tears of Joy
- Author
- Keith Houston
- Narrator
- Michael Butler Murray
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish Date
- 1 July 2025
- Run Time
- 5 hours 44 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
We are surrounded by emoji. They appear in politics, movies, drug deals, our sex lives, and more. But emoji's impact has never been explored in full. In this rollicking tech and pop culture history, Keith Houston follows emoji from its birth in 1990s Japan, traces its Western explosion in the 2000s, and considers emoji's ever-expanding lexicon. Named for the world's most popular pictogram, Face with Tears of Joy tells the whole story of emoji for the first time.
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- Author
- Keith Houston
- Narrator
- Michael Butler Murray
- Duration
- 5 hours 44 minutes
- Release Date
- 1 July 2025
- ISBN
- 9798331987060
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Genre
- Graphical and digital media applications, History of Computing, digital and information technologies, History of engineering and technology, Popular culture, Communication studies
Synopsis
A vibrant exploration of the world's newest language—where it came from, how it works, and where it's going.We are surrounded by emoji. They appear in politics, movies, drug deals, our sex lives, and more. But emoji's impact has never been explored in full. In this rollicking tech and pop culture history, Keith Houston follows emoji from its birth in 1990s Japan, traces its Western explosion in the 2000s, and considers emoji's ever-expanding lexicon. Named for the world's most popular pictogram, Face with Tears of Joy tells the whole story of emoji for the first time.
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