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Emojis in the Context of Digital Mourning:

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dc.creatorSiever, Christina Margrit
dc.date.accessioned2024-06-14T11:15:04Z
dc.date.available2024-06-14T11:15:04Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractEmojis have become an indispensable part of digital communication. There are undoubtedly cultural differences and individual preferences in their use, but the utilization of emojis naturally also depends on the communication situation and the topic. The present article is about emojis that are applied in the context of digital mourning on Twitter for so-called ›angel babies‹ (German: »Sternenkinder«), i.e., children who die (shortly) before, during, or after birth, and sometimes also later. The article analyzes the extent to which emojis are used in mourning processes in addition to verbally expressed grief for a deceased child and what function they have in this context. In particular, it will be analyzed what multimodal communication with emojis looks like, i.e., whether emojis are part of the message or rather have an illustrative character. In addition, the question is explored whether there are specific emojis for digital mourning communication and to what extent symbols that can be interpreted in religious terms can also be found (for example angels, praying hands, or candles). The facial signs used will also be examined; for example, the extent to which crying and sad emoticons are used to express grief and empathy. Furthermore, it will be discussed whether the heart as a symbol of love is also as present in grief communication on Twitter – as observed elsewhere in digital communication. The data basis for the analysis is a corpus of around 8,351 German-language tweets containing the sequence of characters »sternenkind« (angel baby).en
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/22338
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/23770
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherHerbert von Halem
dc.publisher.placeKöln
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:1614-0885
dc.relation.ispartofseriesIMAGE. Zeitschrift für interdisziplinäre Bildwissenschaft
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
dc.subjectmultimodal communicationen
dc.subjectemojisen
dc.subjectdigital mourning communicationen
dc.subject.ddcddc:700
dc.titleEmojis in the Context of Digital Mourning:de
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
dspace.entity.typeArticle
local.coverpage2024-06-16T02:38:35
local.source.epage237
local.source.issue2
local.source.spage215
local.source.volume19

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