c-span

History of the Smiley Face Symbol

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Wall Street Journal

The Shockingly Large Business Behind the Iconic Smiley Face

EVERYONE KNOWS the ingredients of a smiley face: the egg-yolk circle, the black oblong eyes, the curved grin. It has pervaded pop culture since the 1960s, when hippies stickered it onto VW buses and ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Your Brain Now Processes a Smiley Face as a Real Smile

When you see a colon and a parentheses, you know exactly what it means. The smiley face has become ubiquitous online, and psychologists have even looked into the ways it’s used in emails. Now, ...
The Conversation

Smiley like you mean it: how emoticons get in your head

Owen Churches does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...
Forbes

This Is What Your Coworkers Are Thinking When You Put Smiley Faces In Emails

This story originally appeared on LearnVest as "Stop Putting Smiley Face Emojis in Your Work Emails, Cool? :)" There are two types of people in this world — those who think emojis are merely symbols ...