Émoji-nation
Émoji-nation
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Émoji-nation

2021
~20 min / ep
1 season
3 episodes
Documentary

A playful and offbeat investigation into the world of emojis: the little ideograms we use in our instant messaging. How did a fun, pop Esperanto go from being a work of art to being an instrument of cultural domination?

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Seasons

  • Ep 1

    1.Everyone Wants Their Emoji

    21-07-202120 min

    Of 176 small pictograms born in Japan over 20 years ago, they have surpassed the 3000 symbol mark.

  • Ep 2

    2.In the Heart of Emoji Valley

    21-07-202120 min

    The history of the Consortium begins in January 1991, when the World Wide Web is still in its infancy. It’s a chaos between exchanges of computer texts on the planet. There are too...

  • Ep 3

    3.A New Language?

    21-07-202120 min

    It is fun, practical, but maybe (too) simple and too controlled? Because behind these little signs, how can’t we see the shadow of Georges Orwell's newspeak in his 1984 novel.

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