Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Humanities Science, Management and Education Technology (HSMET 2019)

Positive or negative: emoji usage in online social media

Authors
Feng Lin
Corresponding Author
Feng Lin
Available Online July 2019.
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.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
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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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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Humanities Science, Management and Education Technology (HSMET 2019)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
July 2019
ISBN
978-94-6252-765-2
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/hsmet-19.2019.95How to use a DOI?
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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