Emoji-nation

How can the triumph of emojis be explained? "Small but mighty," they would probably reply if they could speak. Instead, "Emoji Nation" asked their inventors: from the designer of the first emojis, Shigetaka Kurita, to Rayouf Alhumedhi, the designer of the first emojis with a hijab. (Text: SRF)

Of course, emojis couldn't just be left to roam freely across the Internet. After numerous wanderings, the Unicode standard was imposed on them. Now the little yellow men and the Unicode Consortium are linked for better or for worse. (Text: SRF)

Emojis are nice and harmless. Almost everything can be expressed with them. Linguist Pierre Halté and journalist Evgeny Morozov, who researches the history of the Internet in the USA, have examined the influence of the pictograms on language use. (Text: SRF)