Face with Tears of Joy: A Natural History of Emoji Martin Porter and the limitations of the

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Face with Tears of Joy: A Natural History of Emoji Martin Porter and the limitations of theWe 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