What happens when emoji go wrong?
We all love to use emoji, but their inherent ambiguity means that misunderstandings can happen — not only across cultures, but across devices.
Linguist Daniel Midgley makes it clear on this episode of Talk the Talk.
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Show notes
Skeptic’s Dictionary: Myers-Briggs
http://skepdic.com/myersb.html
OCEAN scale
http://psychology.about.com/od/personalitydevelopment/a/bigfive.htm
Grammar Police Influenced By Personality Traits
http://wemu.org/post/grammar-police-influenced-personality-traits#stream/0
Personality influences how one reacts to email errors
http://www.healthcanal.com/life-style-fitness/71647-personality-influences-how-one-reacts-to-email-errors.html
The actual paper: If You’re House Is Still Available, Send Me an Email: Personality Influences Reactions to Written Errors in Email Messages
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0149885
Emojipedia
http://emojipedia.org
Sassy hand girl! 💁
High-five? or prayer? 🙏
Person raising both hands in celebration 🙌
Grinning face with smiling eyes 😁
What Your Favourite Emoji Symbols Actually Mean
http://www.popsugar.com.au/celebrity/What-Do-Emoji-Faces-Symbols-Mean-34639445#opening-slide
We’re All Using These Emoji Wrong
http://www.wired.com/2015/05/using-emoji-wrong/
No, the Praying Hands Emoji Is Not a “High Five”
http://gawker.com/no-the-praying-hands-emoji-is-not-a-high-five-1613936693
Can YOU decipher these emoji messages? Translators from 11 regions misunderstand ‘universal’ symbols – with hilarious results
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3196583/Can-decipher-emoji-messages-Translators-11-regions-misunderstand-universal-symbols-hilarious-results.html
What’s that emoji mean? It all depends on the device you’re using
http://www.pcworld.com/article/3053967/consumer-electronics/whats-that-emoji-mean-it-all-depends-on-the-device-youre-using.html
Careful… That Emoji Might Mean Something Very Different To Its Recipient
http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2016/04/careful-that-emoji-might-mean-something-very-different-to-its-recipient/
9 Emojis That Look Completely Different on Other Phones
http://mentalfloss.com/article/70879/9-emojis-look-completely-different-other-phones
Investigating the Potential for Miscommunication Using Emoji
http://grouplens.org/blog/investigating-the-potential-for-miscommunication-using-emoji/
The actual paper: “Blissfully happy” or “ready to fight”: Varying Interpretations of Emoji
http://grouplens.org/site-content/uploads/Emoji_Interpretation.pdf
What does Slacktivism mean?
https://www.techopedia.com/definition/28252/slacktivism
The Panama Papers: leaktivism’s coming of age
http://www.theguardian.com/news/commentisfree/2016/apr/05/panama-papers-leak-activism-leaktivism
From Ricki: the dreaded Android hairy heart!
http://blog.emojipedia.org/android-50-emoji-changelog/
Phrase Finder: “talk the talk”
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/walk-the-walk.html
Transcript
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13 July 2016 at 6:04 am
Just catching up on your podcasts and listened to this one this morning, wanted to share my little emoji disaster. I adopted a cat and didn’t know if it was a boy or girl until I took it to the vet. I got home and posted on fb (from my Windows phone) “it’s a girl!” with two pink paw prints. Fb rendered this as two pink baby footprints. Thanks fb for disappointing my family and terrifying my bf.
Fully acknowledge this is potentially my fault for using a Windows phone.