I [heart] the emoji revolution
I [heart] the emoji revolution
- September 22, 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 Boston Globe September 22, 2013
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From The Boston Globe:
For people growing up on Snapchat, Instagram, GIFs, and the image-heavy pages of
Facebook, emoji are the perfect “boundary form,” as University of California, Irvine
cultural anthropologist Mimi Ito describes it, engaging both language and image. It
helps that for older readers – i.e., parents – they can be completely indecipherable…
Ito, who has extensively studied teenage emoji use in Japan, says that trying to read
the text logs of teenagers can be impossible: “We would see kids use combinations
in creative ways that you wouldn’t be able to interpret as an outsider.”
For the full story, please visit http://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2013/09/21/heart-emoji-revolution/2sQHE....
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