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The document discusses the top 10 most-used emojis in 2023 and their significance in digital communication, highlighting that emojis help convey emotions and attitudes that may be difficult to express in writing. It traces the origin of emojis to Japan and notes their global adoption since 2010, emphasizing their role in enhancing communication and fostering emotional connections. However, it also addresses the limitations of emojis, including cultural differences in interpretation and varying technology compatibility.

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Digital Communication- Digital World- Emojis

The document discusses the top 10 most-used emojis in 2023 and their significance in digital communication, highlighting that emojis help convey emotions and attitudes that may be difficult to express in writing. It traces the origin of emojis to Japan and notes their global adoption since 2010, emphasizing their role in enhancing communication and fostering emotional connections. However, it also addresses the limitations of emojis, including cultural differences in interpretation and varying technology compatibility.

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Digital Communication - Emojis

The top 10 most-used emojis in 2023 so far

😂 : face with tears of joy​


🤣 : rolling on the floor laughing​
1.

❤️ : red heart​
2.

🙏 : folded hands​
3.

😭 : loudly crying face​


4.

😍 : smiling face with heart-eyes​


5.

✨ : sparkles​
6.

🔥 : fire​
7.

😊 : smiling face with smiling eyes​


8.

🥰 : smiling face with hearts


9.
10.

In a time when we're bombarded with digital communications, often on multiple


devices simultaneously, the ability to quickly interpret the sender's intent or
respond to a message quickly and effectively is essential and emoji often help
with this.

Emojis have their roots in Japan. Their name comes from the Japanese words for
“picture” and “characters.” They have been common for years in Japanese
electronic messages and Web pages. Over time, people in other countries came to
adopt them, too. It wasn't until 2010, when hundreds of emoji characters were
incorporated into Unicode and available on iPhones that they began to spread
globally. In 2015, Oxford Dictionaries named the “face with tears of joy” emoji as
the word of the year. The most popular emoji is still “the face with tears of joy.”

Sometimes emojis act as a kind of language to communicate important


information about emotions or attitudes. These emotions or attitudes might be
difficult to express in writing, yet they are part of the idea the writer wants to
send. For example, when people speak to each other, they often use their faces
and voices to give a lot of information.
A 2016 report noted differences in how people around the world use emojis. The
researchers found that “users from France are more likely to use emojis related to
hearts, while users from other countries prefer emojis related to faces.”

Recent studies indicate that people who use emoji in communications are
perceived as nicer and even tend to be, " mindful of the emotional state of the
people with whom they are communicating as well as making a statement about
their own emotional state to be understood as well" (L. Kaye, S. Malone, H. Wall,
2017).

For many years, emoji were viewed as somewhat juvenile but we believe things
are starting to change for this rapidly developing language and that we'll be
seeing more widespread use of emoji as a serious, and even professionally
acceptable form of communication in the years to come.

One of the challenges to written communication has always been deciphering the
author's affect—innocuous statements can easily be read out of context and
viewed as argumentative, whiney, insincere, etc. These limitations were
addressed in early chat rooms with character based smileys such as :P and :).
These opened up new possibilities for remote digital communication, freeing
people to use sarcasm (and have it understood as such) and more importantly
developing a more human connection for people who weren’t face-to-face.

In a McLuhanian sense (every medium, through the way it appeals to human senses,
shapes the experience of its audience differently), our keyboards and screens became
extensions of ourselves. Suddenly, remote listeners were able to develop a
stronger awareness of the messenger's effect or emotional state, giving him/her a
deeper ability to more fully receive the message as intended.

Emojis don't replace language; they provide the nonverbal cues, fit-for-purpose
in our digital textspeak, that helps us nuance and complement what we mean by
our words. The emoji's primary function is not to usurp language but to fill in the
emotional cues otherwise missing from typed conversations.
Limitations
Emoji naturally have some shortcomings, primarily when it comes to
understanding intent. As a relatively new language, many of the icons have yet to
be codified and there are naturally shifting meanings associated with particular
images.

For starters, although they are largely image based and can be universally
understood, cultural differences in symbolic meaning of specific icons or gestures
can lead to confusion. Along these lines, with its roots in Japan, there are quite a
few emojis that are specific to Japanese culture that might not be as useful or
understood elsewhere.

Additionally, dialects of emoji use have been observed in particular contexts


meaning that some icons may be widely used and understood in specific social
circles but they lose their meaning or the meaning might change in others. And in
more adult-themed digital communications some emoji have been assigned
specific meanings that could create an awkward situation for someone not
familiar with the lingo.

The final limitation is that technology and different platforms have varying
degrees of emoji character sets. In these instances a character entered in a chat
program on an Apple device running the latest version of iOS is likely to have a
character or variant not available on older versions or other devices or apps,
leading to a misfire in communication. You may have added emoji to a
powerpoint but when ordering a print of the deck, the character is replaced with a
different symbol or worse, simply left an unintended blank space.

With so much exchange of written messaging happening throughout each day of


our digitally-connected lives, emojis fill a void that simple text and punctuation
aren't able to.
Questions

1.​ Explain the origin of ‘emojis’? [2]


2.​ Why is it perceived that people who use emojis in their communication are
considered nicer? [3]
3.​ What are the benefits of using emojis in communication? [4]
4.​ Do you think emojis should be used in business communication? Give
reasons. [4]
5.​ What are the limitations of using emojis in communication? [4]
6.​ Do you believe emojis will replace language or complement the language ?
[4]
7.​ What do you understand of this emoji according to the source? [2]
8.​ What is the most common emoji you use in your communication and why?
[4]
9.​ How has the use of emojis evolved over the past decade in digital
communication? [8] [Research based questions]

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