E-mail Receiver and Sender Factors That Influence Emoticon Perception and Use

Electronic communication plays vast roles in the way individuals communicate in today’s society, this has created a significant change to the quality of interpersonal

Interesting, too, is the fact that Bolter mentions emotional tactics involved in emails and instant messaging. How fascinating it is to realize that we have actually put different emotional “faces” to express how we are speaking through IM’s and e-mails. To think that we have come so far in this visual culture that we need icons and pictures to express how we are feeling through writing. As if the text was not enough to describe how we are feeling, it is far more simpler to just use images like these: J or L.

Over the year’s technology has evolved drastically. Technology that involves social media play a huge role in the way people interacts with one another especially when it comes to grammar. Most people communicate using their computers, mobile device or tablets. As technology is changing so has the language. Social media is one of the main forms of communicating with people. Sites such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, Youtube are major social media outlets that are used daily to communicate with individuals near or far. It has formed language using mainly acronyms and emojis (pictures). Emojis has become popular in the past few

Even though technology has provided us with amazing results in making the world that once seemed massive fit into the click of our finger, technology has also deprived us of natural behaviors. We no longer communicate our feelings through words but through emoticons. People have forgotten what it means to hold a conversation and how to act with others without a screen in front of them. For example, months prior to attending Baylor University, I spent months interacting and creating a relationship with a friend who was also going to attending Baylor. We created a friendship via text messaging, but when it came down to us randomly running into each other we awkwardly acknowledged each other’s presence and said not one word to each other.

“Will We All Speak Emoji Language in a Couple Years” was written by Gretchen McCulloch on August 9, 2015 as a blog post on “Mental Floss”, a site geared towards broadcasting fun facts that ordinary people of today may not be familiar with. In the thesis of this article, McCulloch states that we will not speak in complete emoji language in the years to come because: “…no matter how good you are at emoji…there are some things you just can’t say clearly in any combination of little pictures” (McCulloch). One of the main supporting points used in this article is the recreation of Moby Dick, entitled “Emoji Dick”. McCulloch uses the first and second sentences of Emoji Dick to show that the emoji’s do not create a clear sentence structure and is

Emojis are a big part of our society. Emoji’s should be used, for people to have emotion in written communication. An article published by Los Angeles Times states, “But emojis quickly surpassed emoticon use for two key reasons: There’s a lot more people can communicate with emojis. “I can make an emoji that’s a whale or a penguin,” said Internet language expert Gretchen McCulloch.”I don’t even know how I would do that with emoticons”. McCulloch is saying that he didn’t know how emotion would be like without emojis. And how everyone uses them in everyday life. An article made by Big Think, and written by Orion Jones saying, “Because the tone of a conversation affects how we react, and because physical cues help set tone, emoticons are much

The language of the article remains impartial but does show some favor toward emoji use in the workplace. This becomes clear when she says “But why are people using emoticons or emoji in the workplace? The answer is that they’re useful.” She presents both sides of the argument, but offers her opinion that emoji should be used based on their emotional appeal. The connotation in her language is positive and seems very welcoming to the new form of written communication. It is easy to tell that her tone is supportive when she calls the use of emoji “useful” and “clarifying”. Because of the generally older demographic of The Atlantic the author seems to assume that they automatically would disagree with using emoji at work. The article was generally very straightforward, readable, and made you think for

According to Tracey Lien, emojis have both negative and positive impacts on the lives of everyday users. “A...report from...Bloomberg news...found that 8 trillion text messages are sent each year, leaving a lot of room for misinterpretation.”

“Emojis are Unicode graphic symbols, used as a shorthand to express concepts and ideas”(Kralj). Emoticons are basically little pictures that are sent through different types of messaging systems to express emotion after or before the sender types what he/she is saying. On the other hand, hieroglyphics were drawings that were strictly one type of communication. “The ancient Egyptians expressed their ideas in writing by means of a large number of picture signs which are commonly called hieroglyphics”(Budge1). These pictures were drawn to express emotion, sound, and description, that told the comprehender what the writing was saying. Hieroglyphics and emoticons were both pictures that displayed a message, but hieroglyphics were more complicated than emoticons. Hieroglyphics were strictly pictures that represented writing, therefore they had to be really elaborate to create no confusion as to what the drawings were saying. However, emoticons are very simple symbols that display emotions and objects. They are simple because when a writer is using them it is either supported with words or what the writer is trying to convey is so simple that an emoticon can be enough to get the message across. “Emojis on smartphones, in chat, and email applications have become extremely popular worldwide.”(Kralj) As time progresses, it is possible that emoticons can become more elaborate, such as hieroglyphics were to become more independent in communication. By comparing hieroglyphics

Emojis are weakening our ability to read and write. An article published by the Newsela staff, “When the Oxford English Dictionary declared an emoji its 2015 word of the year, people scratched their heads,” explores how emojis in this generation have been taking over our ability to read and write. According to the Newsela staff, Move this online, where emails, text messages and instant messages, mostly allow us to communicate with words, and you can see how messages can lose their meaning or be misinterpreted.” Thus meaning, where emojis can be used, it will lower our grammatical intellect drastically.

Texting has revolutionized the way humans communicate in more ways than merely increasing the speed at which they transmit information. For Instance, Common texting abbreviations such as “lol” or “rotfl” have become ingrained into the culture of many first world countries and are now used in everyday conversation. Though the individual speaking or typing these abbreviations is not actually transmitting recognizable English words, there is a mutual understanding between the ones communicating of what each series of letters means. The meanings of the words are not obscured in any way.

Almost everyday we use emojis, but half the time, people misinterpret them. In the article “Emojis: Just another way to miscommunicate?” by Rochelle Olson, we are informed of the two main reasons behind ‘emoji misconception.’ The first is the way certain companies make their emojis look when they are sent to other types of phone and social media; the second is the way people read and misread emojis. To begin, there are many different tech companies, each company has their own distinct emoticons and so they appear differently on separate platforms. (Olsen, paragraph 2, 6) For example, companies such as Apple or Samsung have their own emojis. When say an Apple phone sends an emoji to a samsung, it appears differently causing mixed emotions. Second,

Emojis can be interpersonal danger zones. There is no written book on what the symbols mean. Sure, you may think a smiley face means a smile but did you take sarcasm into play there? When it comes to this kind of communication, there's too much room for messages to get lost in translation. With the invention of texting, communication has changed. It's much more difficult to express how one actually feels through text and now, emojis make it even worse. Emojis are even seen in politics and journalism these days. It's just a matter of time before they consume us

Emoticons are convenient in everyday lives but one person understanding the meaning of emoticons which is using by another person can be totally not the same and the ambiguity of emoticons can lead to unwanted misunderstandings, particularly when two parties are unfamiliar with one another. Therefore, users may get troubles from conveying them. Also, a drawback of transmitting emotions with emoticons is that the choice of them is limited sometimes. The range of emotions that people can express is restricted by this constraint, and the subtle nuances of emotions that people experience are prevented. At the same time, people can express feelings without using complicated sentences, only by symbols with a universally understood meaning. Moreover,

The article “Emojis: The death of the written language?” (Mody, 2015) by Seema Mody is a bad article because, yes emoji’s are used in everyday text messages as well as the written language. You can’t have a conversation simply by using just emoji’s. In the article, Mody makes the assumption that “recipient not always grabbing the full meaning” (Mody, para 23) basically meaning someone might misinterpret what your trying to say. But that is wrong because for example, the peach emoji can be interpreted as a butt or a peach. But based on the conversation you are having the recipient will know the meaning. Having a conversation about fruit or a person could be an example. “Once you use a emoji you just want more and more” (Mody, para 12) that is