Motives, frequency and attitudes toward emoji and emoticon use

Electronic Mediated Communication (EMC) has become highly prevalent in our daily lives. Many of the communication formats used in EMC are text-based (e.g., instant messaging), and users often include visual paralinguistic cues in their messages. In the current study, we examined the usage of two of such cues - emoji and emoticons. Specifically, we compared self-reported frequency of use, as well as attitudes (6 bipolar items, e.g., “fun” vs. “boring”) and motives for their usage (9 motives, e.g., “express how I feel to others”). We also examined these indicators according to age and gender. Overall, participants (N = 474, 72.6% women; Mage = 30.71, SD = 12.58) reported using emoji (vs. emoticons) more often, revealed more positive attitudes toward emoji usage, and identified more with motives to use them. Moreover, all the ratings were higher among younger (vs. older) participants. Results also showed that women reported to use emoji (but not emoticons) more often and expressed more positive attitudes toward their usage than men. However, these gender differences were particularly evident for younger participants. No gender differences were found for emoticons usage. These findings add to the emerging body of literature by showing the relevance of considering age and gender, and their interplay, when examining patterns of emoji and emoticons use.info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersio

Analysis of usage emoji in internet communication on WhatsApp

Má bakalářská práce s názvem "Analysis of usage emoji in internet communication on WhatsApp" se zabývá charakteristikou emodži a jeho historickým vývojem a následně také ve vztahu k sociální síti WhatsApp. Bakalářská práce je rozdělena na dvě hlavní části - na teoretickou a praktickou část.ObhájenoThis bachelor's thesis entitled "Analysis of usage emoji in internet communication on WhatsApp" deals with the characteristics of emoji and its historical development and subsequently also in relation to the social network WhatsApp. The bachelor thesis is divided into two main parts - the theoretical and practical part

Grammatical understanding, literacy and text messaging in school children and undergraduate students: a concurrent analysis

Recent research has demonstrated that use of texting slang when text messaging does not appear to impact negatively on children and young people's literacy and may even benefit children's spelling attainment. However, less attention has been paid to the impact of text messaging on children's and young people's understanding of grammatical forms. This study examined the interrelationships between 243 children and undergraduate students' grammatical violations made when text messaging and their performance on assessments of spoken and written grammatical understanding, orthographic processing and conventional spelling ability. The children were found to make significantly more capitalisation and punctuation errors, and to use unconventional punctuation more frequently that the adults, when the length of their messages was taken into account. For the primary and secondary school children there was no relationship between the tendency to make grammatical violations when texting and their understanding of conventional grammar or orthography. For the young adult sample, there was some evidence of an association between the tendency to make capitalisation and punctuation errors when texting, and poorer performance in selecting the grammatically correct orthographic representation of a pseudoword. This relationship remained after controlling for individual differences in undergraduates' IQ and spelling ability. Overall, there is little evidence that ungrammatical texting behaviour is linked to grammatical understanding or knowledge of orthographic representations of language in children. However, there is some evidence that young adults' violation of grammatical conventions when texting may be linked to limited understanding of grammatically-related orthographic conventions

Influence of Emojis and Emoticons in Enhancing Digital Interpersonal Communication: A Study of WhatsApp Application Users

This research intends to focus on the influence of emojis and emoticons in enhancing digital interpersonal communication of WhatsApp application users. The study is supported in the light of Media Richness Theory and survey method has also conducted as part of quantitative research design. A total of 200 students from different universities of Lahore have been selected to understand the impact of emojis and emoticons in their interpersonal communication on daily basis. The findings show  that emojis and emoticons enhance digital interpersonal communication as it fulfills the criteria of conveying facial expressions, personal emotions and variety of sign languages. Findings of the survey illustrated that an emoji helps in supporting a message's meaning. Sometimes, emojis and emoticons seem more effective and easy to respond on a matter instead of writing long texts. The study also demonstrated that emojis and emoticons also help in understanding other person's mood and the level of interest during digital interpersonal communication

Pengaruh Motif Penggunaan Aplikasi Line terhadap Kepuasan Pengguna pada Mahasiswa Jurusan Ilmu Komunikasi di Kota Pekanbaru

Along with the development of technology, communications, and information, this has resulted in developing a communication technology revolution, thereby encouraging the emergence of the smart phone is a smartphone. With smartphones today all the information from the figure, voice, text, and audio-visual equipment, can be processed quickly and easily, either by using the online application. Line is an instant messaging application, in which there are many more features such as free call services, games, emoticons, as well as the sticker that makes this line unique from the other instant messaging applications. Line Messenger are now being popular, ranging from small children to adults. In theory Uses and Gratification audience basically using the mass media based on certain motives, which the media considered trying to meet the needs of the audience. This study purpose to determine whether there is influence motive application use line against user satisfaction in communication science student majoring in Pekanbaru. The method used in this research is quantitative method of explanation , the data collection through questionnaires. Location of the research conducted in the department of communication sciences University of Riau and Riau Islamic University . The total sample of this study are 135 respondents . The Sampling Ttechniques is using unknown Populations . To know how much influence these two variables , the researchers used a simple linear regression analysis . For data processing questionnaire , carried out using statistics program Product And Service Solution ( SPSS ) Windows version 20 .Based on simple linear regression results for this study , the regression coefficient values obtained in this study is Y = 2,274+ 0.052 with a significance level of 0.0003 and smaller than α = 0.05 . Accordingto based on the determination test, the result amounted to 53.5 % . That means, there is the effect of being among the motives use online applications to user satisfaction in students majoring in communication science in Pekanbaru . While the remaining 46.5 % influenced by other indicators that are not included in this study . Thats mean H0 is rejected and Ha is accepted.Keywords : Motive, Satisfaction, and Line Aplicatio

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 also become popular as stimulus materials in scientific research. However, the assumption that emoji/emoticon users’ interpretations always correspond to the developers’/researchers’ intended meanings might be misleading. This article presents subjective norms of emoji and emoticons provided by everyday users. The Lisbon Emoji and Emoticon Database (LEED) comprises 238 stimuli: 85 emoticons and 153 emoji (collected from iOS, Android, Facebook, and Emojipedia). The sample included 505 Portuguese participants recruited online. Each participant evaluated a random subset of 20 stimuli for seven dimensions: aesthetic appeal, familiarity, visual complexity, concreteness, valence, arousal, and meaningfulness. Participants were additionally asked to attribute a meaning to each stimulus. The norms obtained include quantitative descriptive results (means, standard deviations, and confidence intervals) and a meaning analysis for each stimulus. We also examined the correlations between the dimensions and tested for differences between emoticons and emoji, as well as between the two major operating systems—Android and iOS. The LEED constitutes a readily available normative database (available at www.osf.io/nua4x) with potential applications to different research domains.info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersio