Year: 2021
Type: article
Abstract: This exploratory study sets out to investigate the potential distinctiveness of emoji use on the social media platform Instagram.The use of emoji has become popular in digital media, as they provide additional information about a given message; they are said to serve similar purposes to non-verbal cues in face-to-face interactions (e.g Gawne and McCulloch 2019).Several studies have investigated emoji use related to geographical origin, personality traits, age and gender, but their distinctiveness and use for authorship analysis has remained relatively unexplored.Based on a sample of 60 individuals, this study researches not only group-specific characteristics of emoji use on Instagram, but also explores whether or not the use of emoji is distinctive enough to identify individuals simply based on their use of emoji.For this purpose, this study mainly draws on, but also expands, Evan's (2017) emoji function classification framework.The results suggest that individuals do indeed exhibit emoji usage patterns that can be valuable for authorship analysis.
Author: Karoline Marko
Language: English
Subfield: Artificial Intelligence
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W3130827138