The GIF, this little looped video, is often misunderstood as a component of modern communication. It has an important role to play in making modern digital discussion smoother.

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Animation by Slate. Yawning cat via Giphy. Recently Adam Leibsohn, the COO of the GIF platform Giphy, made his case that GIFs are superior to words as a medium of communication. Could this possibly be ...

We’ve seen a massive shift in the way we communicate online with each other. People are replacing words with emoticons, photos and GIFs, and we’ve seen companies like Imgur ride this wave to great ...

The gif or graphics interchange format, which is ubiquitous in modern internet conversations, actually turned 30 this year. Arwa Haider tracks its meteoric rise. The ...

People want to express how they feel in pictures, not words. This is the mantra of tech world soothsayers and the backbone behind major platform revamps like Facebook’s recent inclusion of emoji-like ...

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Brigitte Nerlich receives funding from the Leverhulme Trust and the ESRC. The use of “GIFs” has exploded in recent years. They are used for news, views and entertainment but are most commonly seen as ...

Long before Giphy existed, Tumblr was a home for our animated treasures. Now, the blogging platform is making it easier for us to comb through its vast collection of GIFs and add them to our posts ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Antony Funnell: I want to start with a clarification. Hello, Antony Funnell here, welcome to Future ...