“Nice Picture Comment!” Graphicons in Facebook Comment Threads
Facebook has increasingly incorporated graphical means of communication such as emoticons, emoji, stickers, GIFs, images, and videos (‘graphicons’) into comment…
Facebook has increasingly incorporated graphical means of communication such as emoticons, emoji, stickers, GIFs, images, and videos (‘graphicons’) into comment…
Emoji have gone from being virtually unknown to being a central topic in internet communication. What is behind the rise…
Emojis are small sized images which are naturally combined with free text to visually complement or condense the meaning of…
Choosing the right emoji to visually complement or condense the meaning of a message has become part of our daily…
Many non-standard elements of ‘netspeak’ writing can be viewed as efforts to replicate the linguistic role played by nonverbal modalities…
The texts in mobile messages are not always easy to decipher since tone and body language is removed from the…
Emojis are an extremely common occurrence in mobile communications, but their meaning is open to interpretation. We investigate motivations for…
Emoji provide a way to express nonverbal conversational cues in computer-mediated communication. However, people need to share the same understanding…
Emojis have been widely used to simplify emotional expression and enrich user experience. As an interesting practice of ubiquitous computing,…