Face with tears of joy

a natural history of emoji

Keith Houston (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

288 Seiten

2025 | 1. Auflage
WW Norton & Co (Verlag)
978-1-324-07514-1 (ISBN)

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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. Named for the world’s most popular pictogram, Face with Tears of Joy tells the whole story of emoji for the first time.

In this rollicking tech and pop culture history, Keith Houston follows emoji from their birth in 1990s Japan, traces their Western explosion in the 2000s and considers emoji’s ever-expanding lexicon. Along the way, Houston explores vital developments in tech history and reveals the body of technocrats governing this 3,600-character language. He also addresses the eggplants in the room: risqué emojis, controversy and accusations of “selling out”. Finally, readers learn about the future of emoji as some of the language’s pioneers consider what comes next. Face with Tears of Joy is a language- and tech-lover’s delight, stuffed with gloriously nerdy details, illustrations and fun.

Keith Houston is the author of Face with Tears of Joy, Empire of the Sum, Shady Characters, and The Book. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, and on Mental Floss, BBC Culture, and Literary Hub. He lives in Linlithgow, Scotland.

Erscheinungsdatum	01.07.2025
Zusatzinfo	Illustrationen
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 211 mm
Gewicht	327 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Technikgeschichte
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Grafik / Design
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Theorie / Studium
ISBN-10	1-324-07514-7 / 1324075147
ISBN-13	978-1-324-07514-1 / 9781324075141
Zustand	Neuware