Book contents
- The Emoji Revolution
- The Emoji Revolution
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- 1 The What, the Why and the Where of Emoji
- 2 Emoji and the History of Human Communication
- 3 Making Faces
- 4 Metaphors and Moral Panics
- 5 The Shaping Force of Digital Technology
- 6 People, Politics and Interpersonal Relationships
- 7 Diverse Identities
- 8 Creativity and Culture
- 9 The Emojification of Everyday Life
- Notes
- Index
5 - The Shaping Force of Digital Technology
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 July 2019
- The Emoji Revolution
- The Emoji Revolution
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- 1 The What, the Why and the Where of Emoji
- 2 Emoji and the History of Human Communication
- 3 Making Faces
- 4 Metaphors and Moral Panics
- 5 The Shaping Force of Digital Technology
- 6 People, Politics and Interpersonal Relationships
- 7 Diverse Identities
- 8 Creativity and Culture
- 9 The Emojification of Everyday Life
- Notes
- Index
Summary
looks at the impact digital technology is having on the way people communicate and how this has given rise to emoji culture. One of the key ways in which technology has an effect on language is in terms of what it does and doesn’t allow people to do. People adapt their language practices to the constraints imposed by the available technology, and, over time, these practices develop into linguistic conventions. Emoji are an archetypal product of the role technology plays in our life - they’re intimately tied to the devices we use to communicate. But they’re also a product of social media culture and of the way this technology has brought about a new informality in the way we write to each other. This chapter looks at how emoji fit within this larger context, as well as how features of human-computer interaction such as auto-predict are integrating these technologies ever more into the infrastructure of our daily lives.
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- The Emoji RevolutionHow Technology is Shaping the Future of Communication, pp. 93 - 115Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019