Published 2018
“…In recent years, the technology,
art, and media industries have instituted and legitimized emoji cultures through various milestone events: 2015 saw the move towards visual racial diversity as a skin tone modifier bearing five skin shades was added to all Apple operating systems (Tan, 2015); 2016 saw the original set of 176 emoji being officially adopted into
art history by the Museum of Modern
Art (Galloway, 2016); and 2017 saw the release of an entire movie starring anthropomorphic emoji characters in The Emoji Movie by Sony Pictures Animation (Box Office Mojo, n.d.).
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