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Two smiley faces: Episode six

How emojis have come to define us, and what they tell us about global communication.

In the future, 10 years from now, will our fingers still reach for a laughing face with crying eyes? Will Unicode and its strict approval process for new emoji be relevant at all? Possibly not. We travel to Zimbabwe to hear how some designers are bypassing Silicon Valley by building their own emoji and sticker sets that reflect life in Africa. And we end the series in Shanghai, where we hear how in some parts of Asia, emoji have already been forgotten.

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23 minutes

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Mon 9 Aug 202102:06GMT

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  • Sat 7 Aug 202119:06GMT
  • Sun 8 Aug 202109:06GMT
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  • Mon 9 Aug 202102:06GMT