{"id":1115,"date":"2004-03-08T12:59:04","date_gmt":"2004-03-08T12:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2004\/03\/08\/smiley_aesthetics.html"},"modified":"2004-03-08T12:59:04","modified_gmt":"2004-03-08T12:59:04","slug":"smiley_aesthetics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2004\/03\/08\/smiley_aesthetics.html","title":{"rendered":"smiley aesthetics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.benchun.net\/\">Ben Chun<\/a> asked me an interesting question about graphical smilies last night and i thought that someone out there might know.<\/p>\n<p>IM clients, freemail clients and BB software very commonly uses smilies.  They turn textual smilies into absurd graphical ones, sometimes even animated ones.  Yet, each client renders its own version of the smiley.  Thus, even if you are using AIM, the type of smiley you will get will depend if you&#8217;re using the AIM client, iChat, Fire, etc. and whether or not you turned on conversion in the first place.  How much do the differing renders affect how people read what is being said?<\/p>\n<p>Of course, all i could do was ask more questions.  He&#8217;s asking how the technical artifact affects the impression given.  I&#8217;m curious how the way smilies are read differently because of cultural and individual context.  For example, i was suprised to get an email from a woman i met in Mexico *filled* with smilies.  They were jumping off the page.  What communities use smilies regularly and why?<\/p>\n<p>How much of the smiley representations are functionally textual and how much are they adornments, kinda like the tchotchkes that people add to their phones?  Are they used to express emotion, to reframe the actual text?<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re curious if there is any research on this (or if anyone has any insight).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Chun asked me an interesting question about graphical smilies last night and i thought that someone out there might know. IM clients, freemail clients and BB software very commonly uses smilies. They turn textual smilies into absurd graphical ones, sometimes even animated ones. Yet, each client renders its own version of the smiley. Thus, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}