Summary
I am looking at 2 key texts which will look at emoji as a universal language. In addition I will be looking at Framing theory and how its explains our offline and online communication and our fears surrounding new technology.
I am going to be looking at these two books, one that talks of how social media has changed the world we live in and looking at the theories of Gregory Bates and Erving Goffman we coined the phrase ‘framing theory’. Framing theory is about how there are sets of boundaries, rules and expectations around social interactions. These theories on expected and excepted forms of the frames within which we communicate are relevent for both physical in-person interaction and media communications.
The first book is called How the world changed – Social Media.
Chapter 7 online and offline relationships, p100
‘Authenticity and mediation – looks at why do digital technologies make us fell we are losing something of ourselves?’
‘this is not the first time in history that we have feared this loss of humanity in the face of new technology. Socrates warned of the evils of writing and how this new advancement would be a threat to oral traditions’
This research also delves into how social media, including messaging services like WhatsApp, are used differently depending on country and culture.
chapter 7(*3) human anxiety, new technology in Marvin C. 1988n ‘When old technologies were new’
file:///C:/Users/dan/Downloads/When_Old_Technologies_Were_New_Thinking_About_Elec.pdf
also see Turkle .S 2011 alone together – why we expect more from tech and less from each other.
Turkles ideas on new technology and social communication are also mentioned in the essay written by Oliva Laing, The future of loneliness.
The next book I’m going to look at is the Semiotics of Emoji by Marcel Danesi
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=xEPqDAAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PP7#v=onepage&q&f=false
The world doesn’t make sense so why should I paint pictures that do? Pablo Picasso
The tears of joy emoji was the oxford dictionary of the year. This book looks at the emoji and a modern day phonomena – and asks the question is the emoji a universal new language understood by everyone around the world that is ever evolving or is it a passing fad?
