🤌 and its meanings: An emojical study
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“❤️ is in the air”: la expansión de la imagen del corazón en el paisaje urbano y digital contemporáneo
The image of the heart regularly appears in our daily lives: it decorates multiple everyday objects, such as clothing, logos,…
Mediating Intimacy with DearBoard: a Co-Customizable Keyboard for Everyday Messaging
Co-customizations are collaborative customizations in messaging apps that all conversation members can view and change, e.g. the color of chat…
Emojis and the performance of humour in electronic-mediated everyday conversation: a study of a corpus of WhatsApp chats
Emojis are little pictographs commonly added to electronic messages on several socialmedia and platforms. Besides being considered as a way…
Do Emoji Sequences Have a Preferred Word Order?
We systematically analyze the ordering of elements in emoji sequences, or uninterrupted strings of two or more different emoji, on…
What’s behind those smiling eyes: Examining emoji sentiment across vendors
To date, a significant body of literature has examined the unique characteristics involved in communicating emotion. These days, emotional intent…
Animoji Adoption and Use: Gender Associations with an Emergent Technology
Advances in facial recognition technology have enabled graphical filters that can track a user’s facial expressions in real time. One…
Word-Emoji Embeddings from large scale Messaging Data reflect real-world Semantic Associations of Expressive Icons
We train word-emoji embeddings on large scale messaging data obtained from the Jodel online social network. Our data set contains…
The Anatomy of Memetic Stickers: An Analysis of Sticker Competition on Chinese Social Media
The creative and complex ways users employ memetic stickers to engage in sticker competitions raise challenges for theoretical un-derstandings of…
Customizations and Expression Breakdowns in Ecosystems of Communication Apps
The growing adoption of emojis, stickers and GIFs suggests a corresponding demand for rich, personalized expression in messaging apps. Some…