Smiling Through The Pain: A Response To Late Capitalist GIF Thoughts | Rachel Bochner
“Happy Hump Day😜!” “Almost the weekend…😅” “TGIF!🙌🏽” Some might call this ‘smiling through the pain.’ The term “late capitalism” has recently become a particularly...
Late Capitalist GIF Thoughts | Fidelia Lam
Late Capitalist GIF Thoughts plays with the digital banality of the GIF format in an attempt to draw attention to the affective impact of...
👍🏿👎🏻: Emojis, Digital Blackface, and White Identity | Miranda Rosenblum
Does 👋🏻 mean something different than 👋🏾? What about ✊🏿 compared to ✊🏻? In 2015, Apple released a new array of emoji skin tones....
The Word on the Street is not a Word: It’s An 😄 | Grace O’Brien
The newfound popularity of emojis and emoticons can be attributed to the human need for nonverbal communication, representing language progression and evolution. They serve...