The Emoji Factor: Humanizing the Emerging Law of Digital Speech
Emoji are widely perceived as a whimsical, humorous or affectionate adjunct to online communications. We are discovering, however, that they…
Journal Article
The Dark Side of a Smiley: Effects of Smiling Emoticons on Virtual First Impressions
First impressions are heavily influenced by emotional expressions such as smiles. In face-to-face contact, smiling individuals are perceived as warmer…
Varying Linguistic Purposes of Emoji in (Twitter) Context
Early research into emoji in textual communication has focused largely on high-frequency usages and ambiguity of interpretations. Investigation of a…
Lisbon Emoji and Emoticon Database (LEED): Norms for emoji and emoticons in seven evaluative dimensions
The use of emoticons and emoji is increasingly popular across a variety of new platforms of online communication. They have…
Beyond Just Text: Semantic Emoji Similarity Modeling to Support Expressive Communication
Emoji, a set of pictographic Unicode characters, have seen strong uptake over the last couple of years. All common mobile…
More emojis, less :) The competition for paralinguistic function in microblog writing
Many non-standard elements of ‘netspeak’ writing can be viewed as efforts to replicate the linguistic role played by nonverbal modalities…
The “Face with Tears of Joy” Emoji. A Socio-Semiotic and Multimodal Insight into a Japan-America Mash-Up
The blog site of the Oxford Dictionaries features a post dated November 16 2015, which announces that, “for the first…
Emoji as Language and Their Place Outside American Copyright Law
As emoji become more ubiquitous in society, users are learning to express themselves through these symbols. Copyright protection of emoji…
Sentiment of Emojis
There is a new generation of emoticons, called emojis, that is increasingly being used in mobile communications and social media….