The Difference in Emoji Usage Between Genders

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.200406.047How to use a DOI?

Keywords

emoji, gender, online communication

Abstract

This study investigated the use of emoji between male and female genders. Using mixed-method research, the study collected messages with emojis from 20 male and 20 female college students in one of the cities in Indonesia. The study also used brief interviews to learn the reasons and factors for using emojis. The findings show that while there are no signs in terms of intensity of the emoji use, there are some differences in the use of emojis between males and females especially in the kinds of emoji selections. Both genders reported that they used emojis to have to strengthen the meaning of their messages. Besides, the use of emoji is considered to not gender-specific because it functioned to create a comfortable atmosphere in online communication devices for both genders.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Yanty Wirza
AU  - Della Hanifah Nurbaeti
AU  - Hana Hanifah
AU  - Hasri Hanifah
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/04/09
TI  - The Difference in Emoji Usage Between Genders
BT  - Proceedings of the Twelfth Conference on Applied Linguistics (CONAPLIN 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 232
EP  - 236
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200406.047
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200406.047
ID  - Wirza2020
ER  -