The emoji show is gathering emoji based art
The emoji show is gathering emoji based art
- October 30, 2013
- Mizuko “Mimi” Ito, anthropology and informatics professor and John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Chair in Digital Media and Learning, is quoted in Smithsonian Magazine October 30, 2013
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From Smithsonian:
For people growing up on Snapchat, Instagram, GIFs, and the image-heavy pages of
Facebook, emoji are the perfect “boundary form,” as University of California, Irvine
cultural anthropologist Mimi Ito describes it, engaging both language and image. It
helps that for older readers – i.e., parents – they can be completely indecipherable.
For the full story, please visit http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2013/10/the-emoji-show-is-gath....
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