Emojis as Contextual Indicants in Location-Based Social Media Posts
The presented study aims to investigate the relationship between the use of emojis in location-based social media and the location…
Social Media
The Language of Emoji in Social Media
The very fast development of information technology which is characterized by an influx of industry 4.0 has changed the way…
Opico: A Study of Emoji-first Communication in a Mobile Social App
In the last two decades, Emoji have become a mainstay of digital communication, allowing ordinary people to convey ideas, concepts,…
Emoji Sequence Use in Enacting Personal Identity
Focusing on a Chinese social media platform, this study adopts computer-mediated discourse analysis to examine how users employ emoji sequences…
I Stand With You: Using Emojis to Study Solidarity in Crisis Events
We study how emojis are used to express solidarity in social media in the context of two major crisis events…
“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…