The history of emojis1, the little pictorial icons we all have on our cellphones today, really started in the mid 1990s when Shigetaka Kurita, an employee with Japanese mobile network DoCoMo, invented them. The emoji craze however took off later, when Apple successfully slipped them into the iphone. Using emojis in text messages was seen [...]

Denmark, 2012, Thomas Vinterberg’s film The Hunt is released. It told the story of how a town is shocked after a four-year-old girl confusingly insinuates to the school’s principal that one of the teachers, Lucas, has behaved inappropriately. This triggers a parade of adults who cannot hold their own as parents and embark on a [...]