SOCIAL MEDIA MIRRORS.THE INFLUENCE OF EMOTICONS AND EMOJIS ON ONLINE COMMUNICATION IN SCHOOL ENVIRONMENT
SOCIAL MEDIA MIRRORS.THE INFLUENCE OF EMOTICONS AND EMOJIS ON ONLINE COMMUNICATION IN SCHOOL ENVIRONMENT

Summary/Abstract: Communication, in all its typology, is extremely manifest in all professional, family, public, school environments, the free access to the Internet being the great facilitator. CMC (computer-mediated communication) is a real competition for FtF (face to face) communication, developing almost a “mirage” for students/ pupils, especially for adolescents who are always open to exploring their creative, spontaneous and interesting need for communication. They are therefore also the most inclined to use emoticons and emojis, GIFs and other applications that stimulate interactivity. This increased interest of the students for the use of emoji in the CMC was the starting point of the present paper. The present paper focuses on the use of the emoji in the CMC and the influence it has on the quality of online communication or through SMS messages. The originality consists of the fact that our research pays attention to a marginal communication phenomenon. The emoji represents an extremely used tool in the CMC, it might be only a manifestation of the playful spirit of our century, but it can also mirror changes of consciousness in human relations.

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