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Hello, cybernauts! 👋

Welcome to our blog where you'll find some facts about emojis and some fun activities related to *🥁drumroll🥁* EMOJIS!

Since emojis are part of the cyber world that we visit basically every day 😳 we want you to know more about them and also 'cause they greatly influence the communication that we have through the Internet 🌐🧐

So, go ahead!

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Test your knowledge about emojis while watching a video about emojis!🤓😝😉

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EMO...JI...WHAT?!

Emojis are small pictures! Seen as an increasingly rich form of communication and as a manifestation of the playfulness and visual nature of digital culture.

First introduced by Shigetaka Kurita in Japan in the late 1990s to provide contextual cues and emotional context on a mobile internet platform (Skiba, 2016).

The term ‘emoji’ comes from the Japanese character (絵, "picture") + moji (文字, ‘character’), and not as is commonly believed from the English word 'emotion' (Skiba, 2016).

Since the initial face-based emojis were introduced, the library of emojis has grown and evolved and now includes animals, food, faces and other pictures which can be used individually or together to create meaningful communicative strings.

#Theory #Emoji #Context #Definition

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Once you're done, check here the complete poem 🥺

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rJ6lyeONciE3fSa-uUi_biMuQGtiKH4tI-myPQmSQ5g/edit?usp=sharing

#Activity #Decipher the poem!

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emoji for when you are lost in the walmart

helpme

-bippy

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Emojis as a Language Form

Emojis can be seen as similar to logographs, as they may be representative of a singular morpheme, or word, but one image may be used to indicate multiple emotional reactions.

As such they are a language, but one with universal concepts (Brisson, 2015) and thus have a wider comprehension potential amongst different cultures.

Speech act theory indicates that speech acts are not just communicative acts but also indicative of the state of situation, the emotions of the speaker and listener and emojis can take a role non-verbal indicators of the emotional context of a message, acting as a bridge between verbal and written speech acts (Dresner and Herring, 2014).

Indeed, emojis offer new possibilities in terms of communication.

#Theory #Emoji #New #Language #Communication #tool

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i dont know about u but i really NEED these emojis

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Emojis as Sentiment and Expressions of Emotion in Digital Messages! ❤️📲

The wide usage of emojis and their increasing popularity in tweets, blogs, and text messages across a range of cultures and ages suggest that users consider them as an effective and powerful tool for communicating feelings and emotions in a digital medium.

This suggests users want to express sentiment and emotion in a clear and coherent way using new mediums.

The role of the emoji is not just to convey simply positive or negative overtones, but also more specific emotions and sentiments like anger 😡, happiness 😊, or sadness 😭, and there is evidence of them being used to define activities ⛹️, locations 📍, or objects of interest 📌.

All of these facets of emoji use underline the fact that their usage is clearly a language form.

However, the argument stands that it is a form of visual language that is returning human communication to earlier modes that predate alphabetic and linguistic communication and language modes.

#Theory #Emoji #Digital Era

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#Activity #Guess the song!

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So... let's go over the points!

The “emoji language” is not a new language, but rather a new form of an old method of communication.

It is technology acceptance and creativity that governs the use of emojis.

There remains a perception in some quarters that their use is a lesser form of language and is devaluing and devolving language. However, these concerns are not only unfounded but they ignore human needs for non-verbal information within their communications.

Text language, without emojis, can be misinterpreted in terms of context and meaning without additional clues.

The emojis provide these clues in a creative and innovative way by delivering an indication to the receiver of the message of the sentiment to be expressed and the emotions behind the message.

Emojis, in essence, are an expression of emotion and sentiment, and as a means of delivering creative non-verbal content in a digital medium are both old and new.

#Conclusion #Emoji language #the new #Hieroglyphs

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Choose your favorite three emojis and write instructions on how and in what situations they should be used. Follow the example:

🥺 - This 'Pleading face' emoji is supposed to be used when you want to ask for a favor, but you are somewhat shy to ask for. However, I think it can also be used when something causes a lot of tenderness.

🥰 - This emoji is called 'Smiley face with hearts', and it is normally used to express love, liking or affection towards something (or someone) that you like so much that you can feel the happiness on your face and your heart leaving your body.

🤗 - The 'Hugging face' emoji is supposed to be used as its name says: 'to hug' whoever will be greeted. So, instead of writing 'I send you hugs' you just use that emoji at the end of the conversation. Although depending on the context, it can take another meaning, for instance, as a way of saying 'Thank you' or 'You're welcome'.

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