Emojis and the Law

E Goldman - Wash. L. Rev., 2018 - HeinOnline
Emojis are an increasingly important way we express ourselves. Though emojis may be cute
and fun, their usage can lead to misunderstandings with significant legal stakessuch as …

The law and emojis: Emoji forensics

M Danesi - International Journal for the Semiotics of Law-Revue …, 2021 - Springer
Emojis have been appearing more and more frequently in court cases since at least 2015,
used as evidence for or against intent to commit a crime or as signs of a defendant's …

Emoji accessibility for visually impaired people

GW Tigwell, BM Gorman, R Menzies - … of the 2020 CHI Conference on …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Emoji are graphical symbols that appear in many aspects of our lives. Worldwide, around 36
million people are blind and 217 million have a moderate to severe visual impairment. This …

Deciphering emoji variation in courts: a social semiotic perspective

J Pei, L Cheng - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 2022 - nature.com
Emojis are increasingly being used as digital evidence in courts due to the
miscommunication and misinterpretation arising from the high variability of their usage and …

I second that emoji: The standards, structures, and social production of emoji

B Berard - First Monday, 2018 - firstmonday.org
How does an emoji come to be? In 2010 emoji character sets were incorporated into
Unicode Standard 6 which allowed “picture characters” to become standardized alongside …

Confronting Carpenter: Rethinking the Third-Party Doctrine and Location Information

C Brownstein - Fordham L. Rev., 2023 - HeinOnline
In 1943, the US Supreme Court declared that"[s] ymbolism is a primitive but effective way of
communicating ideas." t Almost four decades later, a computer scientist first used the smiley …

Reading between the text (s)-interpreting emoji and emoticons in the australian criminal law context

M Bromberg, L Welmans, C Lee - New Criminal Law Review, 2020 - online.ucpress.edu
Emoji and emoticons are becoming increasingly prevalent in criminal law cases around the
world, although some judicial officers currently have no experience of them or of interpreting …

Can an emoji be considered as defamation? A legal analysis of Burrows v Houda [2020] NSWDC 485

P Singh - Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal/Potchefstroomse …, 2021 - ajol.info
This article considers the Australian case of Burrows v Houda 2020 NSWDC 485 and the
English case of Lord McAlpine v Bercow 2013 EWHC 1342 (QB). Both cases considered the …

“Unknown Symbols”: Online Legal Research in the Age of Emoji

JL Behrens - Legal Reference Services Quarterly, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Over the last decade, emoji and emoticons have made the leap from text messaging and
social media to legal filings, court opinions, and law review articles. However, emoji and …

Aggressiveness of emojis before the court: A sociosemiotic interpretation

L Cheng, Y Sun, J Li - Social Semiotics, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Emojis, used evidentially as any language is used in communication, have posed new
challenges for courts to adopt emojis as evidence beyond the traditional mode of speech …