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"Ah, copyright. Eric Goldman alerts us to to a new bit of copyright nonsense.
Jieun Kiaer, an Oxford professor of Korean linguistics, recently published an
academic book called
Emoji Speak: Communications and Behaviours on Social
Media. As you can tell from the name, it’s a book about emoji, and about how
people communicate with them:
Exploring why and how emojis are born, and the different ways in which
people use them, this book highlights the diversity of emoji speak.
Presenting the results of empirical investigations with participants of
British, Belgian, Chinese, French, Japanese, Jordanian, Korean, Singaporean,
and Spanish backgrounds, it raises important questions around the complexity
of emoji use.
Though emojis have become ubiquitous, their interpretation can be more
challenging. What is humorous in one region, for example, might be
considered inappropriate or insulting in another. Whilst emoji use can speed
up our communication, we might also question whether they convey our
emotions sufficiently. Moreover, far from belonging to the youth, people of
all ages now use emoji speak, prompting Kiaer to consider the future of our
communication in an increasingly digital world.
Sounds interesting enough, but as Goldman highlights with an image from the
book, Kiaer was apparently unable to actually show examples of many of the
emoji she was discussing due to copyright fears. While companies like Twitter
and Google have offered up their own emoji sets under open licenses, not all of
them have, and some of the specifics about the variations in how different
companies represent different emoji apparently were key to the book.
So, for those, Kiaer actually hired an artist, Loli Kim, to draw similar
emoji!"
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
