In the arenas of ancient Rome, the thumbs-up was a matter of life and death. So scholars have extrapolated from the elusive history of ancient gestures. The fates of defeated gladiators were ...
Shigetaka Kurita, NTT DOCOMO Emoji (original set of 176), (1998–99), software and digital image files, gift of NTT DOCOMO Inc., Japan (© 2016 NTT DOCOMO, all images courtesy Museum of Modern Art) The ...