Émoji-nation

Synopsis

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?

First Air Date: 2021-07-21

Last Air Date: 2021-07-21

Number of Seasons: 1

Number of Episodes: 3

Networks: ICI TOU.TV, ARTE

Seasons

Season 1 (2021)

No overview available for this season.

Episodes:

Ep. 1: Everyone Wants Their Emoji (2021-07-21)

Of 176 small pictograms born in Japan over 20 years ago, they have surpassed the 3000 symbol mark.
Ep. 2: In the Heart of Emoji Valley (2021-07-21)

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 many encoding systems depending on equipment and countries. However, languages must be unified to allow computer science texts to be exchanged on a global scale. It was then that the word processing giants Xerox, IBM and Apple decided to create the Unicode Consortium.
Ep. 3: A New Language? (2021-07-21)

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.