Positive or negative: emoji usage in online social media

DOI

10.2991/hsmet-19.2019.95How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Emoji, Emotional expression, Social media

Abstract

Along with the development of the social media, the communication between people changes a lot. One the most used application in social media is emoji. Emoji can be used to vividly express many linguistic and non-linguistic information, like happy, upset, embarrassing, etc. Sometimes emoji can also express complex meanings which may be contrary to their original meanings. This study focuses on how emoji reflect people’s internal emotional expressions, by rating the score of their recently used emoji. The results show that emoji are more likely to express people’s positive emotions than their negative ones. The main subjects of the survey are on-the-job staff and students at school.

Copyright

© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Feng Lin
PY  - 2019/07
DA  - 2019/07
TI  - Positive or negative: emoji usage in online social media
BT  - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Humanities Science, Management and Education Technology (HSMET 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 512
EP  - 516
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/hsmet-19.2019.95
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