Et kig på socialsemiotikken fra Dansk Sprognævn by Thomas Hestbæk Andersen

“…Second, in The Danish Language Council, research is carried out on how we communicate in various digitalized media, e.g. on Instagram and Snapchat, and here again an understanding of multimodal social semiotics could enlighten research on e.g. emojis (which are often used instead of standard punctuation). …”
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Et kig på socialsemiotikken fra Dansk Sprognævn by Thomas Hestbæk Andersen

“…Second, in The Danish Language Council, research is carried out on how we communicate in various digitalized media, e.g. on Instagram and Snapchat, and here again an understanding of multimodal social semiotics could enlighten research on e.g. emojis (which are often used instead of standard punctuation). …”
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What’s not to like? Enhancing women’s body satisfaction by means of an evaluative conditioning procedure with positive social feedback by Irina Masselman, Peter J de Jong, Klaske A Glashouwer

“…In the experimental condition, participants’ body pictures were systematically followed by the Facebook like-button and youthful smiling faces (study 1, experimental condition: n = 68; control condition: n = 67) or positive Emojis (study 2, experimental condition: n = 64; control condition: n = 67). …”
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Visualizing emotions in social conversations by Bhadra, Soham

“…This is dependent on not only the words used in the sentence but also on various non-alphabetical factors such as emojis, foreign characters and exaggerated spellings that are common in social media comments. …”
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Classification of user-level twitter polarity using soft computing approaches by Iyer, Shruthi Suresh

“…Due of the brevity of tweets (limited to 280 characters) and the use of emojis, emoticons and acronyms, tweets are an especially unique source of a person’s opinions. …”
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A Corpus-assisted Discourse Analysis of ‘The Star Online’ Columns by Ismail, Habibah

“…Not only are readers engaged when they respond to columns with their comments, other forms of feedback are now provided such as options to click the ‘like’ button or from a scale of ‘emojis’, usually at the end of the article –increasing the challenge for writers to produce a good piece of writing. …”
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Emojilogía: propuesta metodológica para la transformación escolar desde y con el estudiantado by Cristopher Yáñez-Urbina, Ignacio Figueroa, Esteban Fica

“…Luego, se profundiza sobre el procedimiento que involucra la propuesta, dando cuenta de la preparación grupal para iniciar el trabajo, la co-construcción de consignas de exploración, la producción de narrativas desde el uso de emojis y la consolidación de espacios de diálogo con el resto de la comunidad educativa. …”
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WeChat online visual language among Chinese Gen Z: virtual gift, aesthetic identity, and affection language by Ruoxi Liu

“…IntroductionAs a relatively new and innovative form of digital communication and visual image, emojis, emoticons, and stickers are appreciated, yet criticised. …”
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A text mining analysis of human flourishing on Twitter by Manuel Cebral-Loureda, Alberto Hernández-Baqueiro, Enrique Tamés-Muñoz

“…The results revealed that although HF users employ average vocabulary diversity, they share more positive emotions, and a greater variety of emojis. They also tended to discuss different topics, from more spiritual and health-related subjects to more practical matters related to work and success. …”
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The use of Messenger for research collaboration: An auto-ethnographic study by Dennis Alonzo, Cherry Zin Oo

“…In addition, the extra features, including easy phone calls, sending links, resources and screenshots, and using emojis and stickers for more socially cohesive interactions, are valued features of Messenger. …”
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A review of gamified approaches to encouraging eco-driving by Richard Stephens

“…Popular gamification elements were: an eco-driving score; self-comparisons or comparisons with others via leader boards; rewards; challenges, missions or levels; and emotive feedback (e.g., emojis). One system aimed to discourage driving at busy times. …”
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Style of pictorial representation is shaped by intergroup contact by Carmen Granito, Jamie Tehrani, Jeremy Kendal, Thom Scott-Phillips

“…Cultures around the world have made images to convey information about living kinds, objects and ideas for at least 75,000 years, in forms as diverse as cave paintings, religious icons and emojis. However, styles of pictorial representation vary greatly between cultures and historical periods. …”
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Utilizing an Attention-Based LSTM Model for Detecting Sarcasm and Irony in Social Media by Deborah Olaniyan, Roseline Oluwaseun Ogundokun, Olorunfemi Paul Bernard, Julius Olaniyan, Rytis Maskeliūnas, Hakeem Babalola Akande

“…Furthermore, we explore the potential of transfer learning from extensive language models and integrating multimodal information, such as emojis and images, to heighten the precision of sarcasm and irony detection. …”
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Learners’ perceived advantages and social-affective dispositions toward online peer feedback in academic writing by Meng Zhang, Qiaoling He, Qiaoling He, Jianxia Du, Fangtong Liu, Bosu Huang

“…It also revealed that the use of emojis, memes, and one-to-one conversation window on WeChat can foster students’ positive emotions. …”
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Whatsapp in the Indonesian Online EFL Learning Milieu: How Do the Students Engage? by Arini Nurul Hidayati, Melisa Sri, Fuad Abdullah, Tenia Ramalia, Widia Yunita, Fera Sulastri

“…The findings revealed that students engaged behaviourally by (1) posing questions or comments politely, (2) using emoticons and emojis as politeness reinforcements, and (3) confirming the unclear information behind the scene. …”
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Intersecting Positionalities and the Unexpected Uses of Digital Crime and Safety Tracking in Brooklyn by Alice Riddell

“…Users comment additional information and post expressive emojis as incidences unravel. In sharing information across a digital network, Citizen functions as both a form of social media and a peer‐to‐peer surveillance app. …”
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Evaluating the Effectiveness of Text Pre-Processing in Sentiment Analysis by Marco A. Palomino, Farida Aider

“…Pre-processing is also required to normalise the text before undertaking the analysis, as social media is inundated with abbreviations, emoticons, emojis, truncated sentences, and slang. While pre-processing has been widely discussed in the literature, and it is considered indispensable, recommendations for best practice have not been conclusive. …”
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Media Communications of Executive Power: Assessing Effectiveness by E. A. Bazhenova, M. A. Shirinkina

“…It has been proven that the engagement of users in communication with authorities is influenced by the content, thematic, linguistic, and non-verbal parameters of the text (question-answer complexes, evaluative vocabulary, prospective and exclamatory constructions, categorization, emojis, etc.). This methodology can be used to assess the effectiveness of media dialogue between executive power and citizens on other digital platforms.…”
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INSTITUTIONALITY OF EDUCATIONAL DISCOURSE IN THE CONDITIONS OF DIGITALIZATION by M. A. Goncharova, V. N. Nikitin

“…In other cases, digitalization has led to a lower degree of institutionalization: learning using Internet technologies is generally more personalized, participants use rather informal language, use smiles and emojis to express their emotions. The authors believe that this trend will remain, since the emotional component is an important factor in maintaining motivation to learn.…”
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Teaching machines about emotions by Felbo, Bjarke

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