Emoji-Text Relations on Instagram

Siever, Christina Margit; Siever, Torsten; Stöckl, Hartmut

doi:10.4324/9780429487965-10

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“…Emoji are everyday communicative symbols used to “display emotional as well as social meanings” (Fischer & Herbert, 2021, p.2), and their use within Instagram has been shown to blur the usual distinction between writing and imagery, in what Siever et al. call “iconographetic communication” (Siever et al., 2019; see also Siever, 2019).…”

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Harnessing Instagram's “platform vernacular” during the COVID‐19 pandemic: A case study of Philbrook Museum of Art

Hu,

Kidd

2023

Curator The Museum Journal

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Researchers have been documenting how museums used social networks during the COVID‐19 global health emergency, however, to date there has been limited assessment of museums' uses of Instagram at that time. This article begins to address that gap with a case study of Philbrook Museum of Art's approach to that platform during the early months of the pandemic. We use a mixed‐method inquiry featuring social media analysis and a series of interviews with staff at the museum to analyze the museum's use of Instagram to maintain a presence within followers' lives during this intensely challenging period. To frame our analysis we introduce Gibbs et al.'s (Information, Communication & Society, 2015, 18, 255) concept of “platform vernacular” to digital heritage studies, trialing its use to critically analyze the combination of affordances, practices, and communicative conventions that Instagram convenes for the museum. We find this approach to be both theoretically and practically insightful, with the potential to inform more meaningful, authentic, and transparent interactions between institutions and users within social networks.

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Section: Instagram's “Platform Vernacular”mentioning

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Harnessing Instagram's “platform vernacular” during the COVID‐19 pandemic: A case study of Philbrook Museum of Art

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Kidd

2023

Curator The Museum Journal

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“…In contrast to other social media platforms, Instagram does not allow the sharing of posts without a picture (unless the picture file that is uploaded contains text) and is thus heavily multimodal in nature (Leaver et al, 2020). Only few linguistic analyses have addressed the language on Instagram, such as Manovich (2017), Veum and Undrum (2018), Siever and Siever (2019), Sullivan Buker (2022), and. Leaver et al (2020) further point out that the platform is mostly used for selfpresentation, which is why Instagram is the ideal platform for identity-related research.…”

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Digital identity performance through emoji on the social media platform Instagram

Marko

2023

Front. Commun.

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IntroductionEmoji are omnipresent features of digital discourses and have become almost inherent features of online interactions. Given the large and ever-increasing variety of emoji, it is not farfetched to assume that users will have preferences for particular emoji or emoji combinations, and that their preferences are indexically related to their identities, for example in terms of skin-tone and/or gender. With a case study, the present paper aims to address a particular gap in the extant literature, namely the role of emoji in the presentation of different identities of one individual, namely a US American female in her early 20s.MethodsThe data for this study was drawn from Instagram and comprises a total of 625 posts made by one user to three of her own accounts with the platform. Each account represents a different aspect of her identity, and the analysis demonstrates that while the use of some emoji remains stable across all of her accounts, other emoji are very account-specific in that they are employed to highlight one particular aspect of her identity.ResultsThe results thus indicate the different values that emoji might have in the contexts of authorship analyses. Additional studies are required to investigate this phenomenon further.

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Humour in Messaging Interactions

Yus

2023

Pragmatics of Internet Humour

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Emoji-Text Relations on Instagram

Cited by 6 publications

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Harnessing Instagram's “platform vernacular” during the COVID‐19 pandemic: A case study of Philbrook Museum of Art

Harnessing Instagram's “platform vernacular” during the COVID‐19 pandemic: A case study of Philbrook Museum of Art

Digital identity performance through emoji on the social media platform Instagram

Humour in Messaging Interactions

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