Oxford dictionaries' word of the year for 2015 isn't a word at all, it's an emoji. Oxford announced on Monday that its official word of the year for 2015 was the "Face with Tears of Joy" emoji. This ...

The “face with tears of joy” emoji represents “a crying with laughter facial expression,” according to Wikipedia. “The emoji is used in communication to portray joking and teasing on messaging ...

Recap: Emoji have become a staple of modern digital communication, allowing users to convey emotion across a medium that otherwise lacks a human touch. The pictographs have been around for well over ...

Oxford Dictionaries announced its ‘Word of the Year' on Monday. But this year, it's not a word. Instead an emoji takes the title. An analysis of words and emojis, or icons used to express an idea or ...

It might be easy to decry Oxford Dictionaries’ decision to name the ‘tears of joy’ emoji as its word of the year, but in fact it is a clarion call to marketers that we can no longer ignore the emoji.

“Emoji Dick,” a line-by-line translation into emoji of Herman Melville’s 1851 novel, “Moby-Dick,” was published in 2010. Five years later, the Oxford English Dictionary chose the “face with tears of ...

The adage “less is more” is almost perfectly displayed by emojis, which can somehow accurately convey complex emotions in a tiny, compact picture. Okay, that may be a reach, but regardless, emojis ...