The woman who will decide what emoji we get to use
12 mins | May 22, 2021
An interview with the head of our phone's emotional cues. Behind the thumbs up or smiley face on your phone is the Unicode Consortium, a nonprofit group of hardware and software companies best known for being the gatekeeper of emojis: releasing them and approving or rejecting new ones. As the new head of Unicode, Jennifer Daniel has a vision for making these symbols work for everyone. Tanya Basu talks with her about how her role and the future of emoji.
From MIT Technology Review