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The World Wants Mangoes and Kangaroos: A Study of New Emoji Requests Based on Thirty Million Tweets

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Qing CaoAuthors Info & Claims

WWW '19: The World Wide Web Conference

Pages 2722 - 2728

https://doi.org/10.1145/3308558.3313728

Published: 13 May 2019 Publication History

Abstract

As emojis become prevalent in personal communications, people are always looking for new, interesting emojis to express emotions, show attitudes, or simply visualize texts. In this study, we collected more than thirty million tweets mentioning the word “emoji” in a one-year period to study emoji requests on Twitter. First, we filtered out bot-generated tweets and extracted emoji requests from the raw tweets using a comprehensive list of linguistic patterns. Then, we examined patterns of new emoji requests by exploring their time, locations, and context. Finally, we summarized users' advocacy behaviors and identified expressions of equity, diversity, and fairness issues due to unreleased but expected emojis, and concluded the significance of new emojis on society. To the best of our knowledge, this paper is the first to conduct a systematic, large-scale study on new emoji requests.

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Barinaga-López BPuente-Bienvenido HNavarro Newball A(2022)A systematic review of trends and gaps in the production of scientific knowledge on the sociopolitical impacts of emojis in computer-mediated communicationCogent Social Sciences10.1080/23311886.2022.21510968:1Online publication date: 12-Dec-2022
https://doi.org/10.1080/23311886.2022.2151096
Feng YLu ZZhou WWang ZCao Q(2020)New Emoji Requests from Twitter UsersACM Transactions on Social Computing10.1145/33707503:2(1-25)Online publication date: 19-Apr-2020
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3370750

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DOI:10.1145/3308558

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Barinaga-López BPuente-Bienvenido HNavarro Newball A(2022)A systematic review of trends and gaps in the production of scientific knowledge on the sociopolitical impacts of emojis in computer-mediated communicationCogent Social Sciences10.1080/23311886.2022.21510968:1Online publication date: 12-Dec-2022
https://doi.org/10.1080/23311886.2022.2151096
Feng YLu ZZhou WWang ZCao Q(2020)New Emoji Requests from Twitter UsersACM Transactions on Social Computing10.1145/33707503:2(1-25)Online publication date: 19-Apr-2020
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3370750

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