First Monday has devoted this month's issue to the Emoji, from which I select two articles to highlight. This article looks at the blending of emoticons, emoji and stickers under the heading of 表情 - biaoqing - in Chinese culture. This is "an umbrella term that brings them together (along with other sort of images) in virtue of a popular understanding of their shared usage: 'expressing emotion', complementing and enriching the textual communications mediated by computing devices and digital media platforms." The article also describes the creation of unique or custom biaoqing, which suggests that this is an ongoing phenomenon.
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