"There are definitely some emojis that have a seemingly obvious meaning," she says, like the winky face. "But there also are a bunch that have meanings that aren't necessarily intuitive." She uses ...

There was no disrespect intended when a winking-face emoji headlined a 75-year-old Spanish woman's newspaper obituary notice. In fact, her family did it on her request. Grandma apparently loved ...

Take the case of Kinsey v. State (2014), where a defendant argued that a winking face emoji constituted consent. The court wasn’t having it, ruling that a does not equal a legally binding agreement.