Online emotions, in hundreds of new flavors
Online emotions, in hundreds of new flavors
- March 9, 2013
- Mizuko “Mimi” Ito, anthropology and informatics professor and current John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Chair in Digital Media and Learning, is quoted in the New York Times, Orange County Register and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette March 9, 2013
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From the NYT:
Mimi Ito, a cultural anthropologist at the University of California, Irvine, who
studies how young people use digital media in Asia and the United States, says it
may be too late for these visual stickers to catch on. “Many users in this country,”
she says, “missed many of the kinds of mobile use practices that characterized early
mobile texting culture.” Other forms of visual-based communication are catching
on here, so maybe there is hope for the mobile stickers. “The U.S. has clearly jumped
onto the visual mobile communication bandwagon,” Ms. Ito says. “But in a way that
is different from the emoji orientation of the earlier adopters.”
For the full story, please visit http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/10/technology/sticker-apps-adding-more-va....
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