Emojis Are Ruining The Way Of Communication

We as a society are evolving with each generation to come. We are getting stronger, faster, and smarter. Just as cell phones are no longer square blocks with numbers on them and TV’s are not in black and white, writing itself has also evolved. Once upon a time many wrote and spoke in a Shakespearean form of language and over the years it has evolved into something we call modern English. In recent years, technology has advanced greatly and cell phones have become one of our primary use of communication. With cell phones came a new form of writing called text messaging. Text messaging is used to send short, concise messages to anyone around the world. Often times text messages involve the use of abbreviations which stand for different things and also involves frequent use of emoji’s as a form of expression. This form of writing is now considered informal writing and is not acceptable in academic settings. In Michaela Cullington’s essay “Does Texting Affect Writing?” she touches on both sides of whether texting is hindering students writing or if it’s actually having a positive effect. She then makes is clear that she believes most students are educated enough to know when text speak is appropriate and when it’s not so therefore it has no effect on students. Although, I agree with her thesis, she lacks credibility due to her insufficient evidence. In addition, I also believe

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It is stated that The Emoji Code condemns The Emoji movie as it portrays emojis as a language, however Evan’s views it as a tool, which is considered an addition and not a threat. The article mentions that the reason that emojis are vastly used is because of its flexibility, meaning that there is no specific way to use them. For example the writer of the emoji could use it with a certain meaning but the recipient could interpret an extremely different message. An example mentioned was when the singer Drake got a tattoo and people thought it was two hands praying or even a high five, however Drake soon addressed the situation by confirming that his tattoo was indeed praying hands. It is also mentioned that people have associated certain emojis to specific actions. For instance a car emoji can represent people commuting, sunglasses on a smiling face can represent coolness, a winking face can represent that the message was intended to be humorous and many more emojis have many more meanings. Initially, emojis were intended for a specific purpose, but eventually began being used for fun and a way for people to express themselves. Towards the end of the article Alex French, a reporter for The New York Times states that a popular business in Hollywood is taking existing work and converting it into a fresh story. In a recent study it was shown that the only purely

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

“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

Bourree Lam, Associate editor of a magazine called The Atlantic, and University of Chicago Grad wrote an article addressing a new form of written communication that is becoming popular at an extreme rate; Emoji. The Article’s purpose is to explain that emoji is slowly making its way to the workplace. With the innovation of electronic communication came new challenges. These challenges include conveying tone through a toneless medium like email or texting. She suggests that emoji can be useful to solve this problem. Often times when emailing or texting another person you can say something and worry that the other person may take it the wrong way or assume a negative tone. Lam argues, with many sources to back her up like a career coach who works with Millennials, a socio-linguist at the University of Pittsburgh, and A Scandinavian study on email in the workplace, that emoji is extremely useful to lighten an otherwise seemingly negative or combative message. Will Schwalbe, co-author of an email etiquette book, explains that “The biggest

In his article ‘More than just a smiley face’ (The Advertiser, 30 May 2015, p. 49), Rod Chester discusses how some experts are branding emoji as the fastest growing language. Chester describes how emoji are pictographs which found their beginning during the 1990s in Japan and are now changing the way we communicate. He admits that while emoji may not qualify as a language, he is certain that it is commonly sought after for electronic communication.

As Stewart Wessel tries to text to his father he has a difficult time telling him that “my birthday party will not be on Sunday because I work late that day, but it will be on Saturday at 7pm and we will be eating ice cream at the Dairy Queen that is about two blocks away from my place.” Unfortunately Mr. Wessel is stuck, there isn’t an emoji to say that and it just will take too much of his time to type what needs to be said. In response, the Unicode Consortium who handles all the text characters has said they would immediately add this emoji to the next specification to prevent anyone else encountering this issue. Stewart Wessel said, “I’m glad that next time I need to tell my dad this I can do it with one emoji because I only use emoji.”

They lighten up the mood. This helps the reader of the text or email a view of how the writer is feeling. It shows emotion, about whatever the text is referred to. Harry Guinness from the article “An emoji to English dictionary: emoji faces, meanings and explain” discusses that “text needs to have emoticons in order to set the tone of a statement or question” so it makes sense that even simple emoji’s can change a mood in a text message. The unspoken mood that can be within a text message doesn’t just stop at periods or any punctuation at that matter. Lastly Collister studies the chances of “too casual” users might be crippling their writing skills. The studies were to show If someone is constantly writing in improper sentences within their text messages or emails will they begin to lack the proper writing skills? According to Collister “Situational code-switching in spoken language has shown that a person’s ability to code-switch that regardless of who the person is texting the user should use proper sentences and English.” That way you never begin to lack the basic writing skills, it’s just a good habit rather than neglect

It allows everyone in the conversation, which can be two people only or very large numbers, online at the same time. Texting is slower than just talking, so the Digital Natives have invented ways to speed it up. “Correct” spelling is replaced by whatever is readable. Anything that can be done with one key is: “k” for OK, and the way characters look on the screen takes on meaning. Abbreviations are well-known (LOL=laugh out loud and a semi-secret code has evolved to protect privacy, as in “GTG POS” (got to go, parent over shoulder.) to make yourself understood The “missing” communication elements of facial observation and body language are often approximated in both email and texting by “emoticon icons” such as the happy, sad or winking

For my ethnographic essay I chose to study the life of police officers who work in the City of Saginaw. Today’s society is consumed by false statements and false social media articles. There are thousands of articles, television commercials, and websites about police brutality, race problems, and rarely seeing anything good about police officers. Lately it seems as though society is more concerned about police brutality than actual positive affects police officers have on society. With all of the things you hear on social media, and fake Facebook articles there are many different things that need to be taken into consideration. What are the positive affects police officers have on the world and in your

In modern America, equality is becoming more of a realization however; racial and civil rights issues are still existent in today’s society. The civil rights movement, which originated in the 1960’s, involved public movements in the United States which the goals were to terminate racial segregation and discrimination against African Americans and to obtain and secure legal acknowledgement and federal protection of the citizenship rights enumerated in the constitution and federal law. Current racial issues have sparked movements such as the “Black Lives Matters” movement and the controversial killing of black men from

Texting other people puts us at risk for getting our words taken the wrong way. I don’t like emoji’s, and italics don’t always get the job done. We need a font that conveys our sarcasm.

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

On the other hand, to further comprehend the reasons behind the continuous usage of emojis, we have to understand that according to Chandler, signs and symbols may take several forms such as words, images, sounds, gestures and/or objects and in the case of this study, they are the emojis. Semiotics, which is the study of signs will give light to how netizens make use of these man-made symbols, the emojis. Semiotics is the study of signs and there are two parts of it—the signifier and the signified. Signifier which is the representation itself, or its physical form and the signified is the meaning its viewers attached to it. In relation to the study, the emoji being the physical form and the signifier, is the one that will be identified through the user-- if it gives out the same interpretation to each person and what are the variations of meaning associated with it. Thus giving answers, if it is an efficient addition to communication or it is not.