Emoticon package ushered in a 40th birthday: Why become "salt of communication"?

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These days, the emoji has ushered in his 40th birthday. From the ":-)" created by Professor Farman of Carnegie Mellon University in 1982, to an anthropomorphic Emoji expression, and then to the various GIF movements and pictures of the brain. At the moment of the deep integration of online communication, the emoji seems to have become a "salt of communication", because too much is accustomed to it, once lack of, it will feel that every sentence is difficult to enlighten.

According to the information content and clarity passed by the media, the communication scientist Mc Luhan once proposed the concepts of "heat media" and "cold media". There is no doubt that communication is a multi -dimensional behavior. In addition to the content, expressions, expressions, and actions can play a role in assisting expression and understanding. Compared with the spread of offline body, online text communication often causes misunderstandings due to the single nature of sensory senses, which is why we cannot do without emoticons. For example, simple text expression often makes people unclear whether they are joking or expressed seriously, and once the "dog head" expression package is added, the position and emotion will be much clearer.

After 40 years of development, instead of expressing emoticons is an assistant to the expression of Internet language, it is better to say that they have become a special language and build the words that can be endogenous and extended. On the one hand, many netizens can talk for a long time when they are chatting. They can talk for a long time. The picture has the intuitive characteristics that it is difficult to play in text expression. Therefore, it also has entertainment significance in addition to pure communication.

On the other hand, the emoticon package itself has also become a cultural system, and it derives its own sub -cultural subset. For example, many celebrity emoticons, cute pet emoticons, and film and television emoticons, through vivid visual elements with accurate text descriptions, have been immersed in the process of making emoticons and collecting emoticons for a long time. Based on the characteristics of extensive dissemination and second creation, they have become the "factors" talked about in communication. This is like when college students want to express their recent exhaustion, they will think of the expression pack of "stress is not so big", and then change the identity information in the picture to "×× university ×× professional student".

In the process of creating emoticons, people complete their emotional projection. When a star is deeply loved, his performance is likely to be shown by fans to make an emoji after another. Many of my classmates around me have chosen to watch a play because of an emoticon package. The elementary school students who watched "Wulin Wai Biography" now graduated from college. Perhaps it was the expression packs on the Internet, which awakened their childhood memories and chose to open the computer for "nh brush".

Of course, the emoticon package also causes some obstacles while bringing happiness and convenience for communication. This is the dialectics of "capable" and "referred to" in symbolics. When sending a "smile" expression, many middle -aged and elderly friends may express friendly and welcome, and in the discourse system of young people, this is a symbol of contempt and angry. There was a news before. A classmate sent a "hammer head" expression in the group to express helplessness and exhaustion, but was mistaken for the student to think that the student wanted to hit himself, which caused misunderstandings. This also reminds us that the use of emoticons should be cautious. Once misunderstandings occur, they are likely to be "unreasonable."

In recent years, in addition to communication, emoticons have also released some social significance overflow effects. Last year, the WeChat emoticon package on behalf of the "leisure" removed the cigarettes in the mouth. Some netizens teased that "the emoticons of more than 10 years have quit smoking, what are you waiting for?" This is also a subtle education for young people. Essence There are also some lively and cute cultural relics emoticons. Traditional festivals dumpling emoticons, moon cake emoji, and dumplings emoji are all active historical and cultural factors in new forms, becoming a messenger between traditional culture and emerging youth.

The emoji is 40 years old. It is foreseeable that in the future, they will still be a good partner of our communication. Remember, no matter what time, good communication should always be one tree shaking and another tree, one cloud promotes the other cloud, so that the emoticon package can become an embellishment Essence

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Author: Lu Jingzheng

Responsible editor: Qin Daixin

School pair: Guo Yanhui

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