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Study On The WeChat Expression Symbol From The Perspective Of Communication And Culture

Posted on:2018-02-09Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Q YuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2348330515468399Subject:Journalism and communication
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With the rapid development of Internet Technology,Social softwares for mobile intelligent terminals quietly entered our network life.As a result of Fragmentation in the "micro" era,WeChat emoticons have now become a unique social network culture,whose start-up and development relying on WeChat.In other words,WeChat has witnessed its emoticons'evolution and thriving in the "micro" era.What kind of cultural trend emoticons have raised in the network world?What effect the users and its dissemination have made on the society and culture?These are worth our thoughtful analysis and studies from an academic point of view.WeChat emoticons are visual symbols.Driven by the media technology,this graphic language has become an integral part of the social network.People obtain visual pleasure during the communication because of the vividness of images.At the same time,emoticons can exactly simulate humans,making amends for your "absence".People try to use these symbols to avoid the tedium and complexity of simple words.The combination of words and emoticons reinterpret the meaning of images,challenging the mainstream culture with creativity,entertainment and fun,gradually forming an entirely new subculture discourse system.A lot of fans are also involved.They use and recreate emoticons,fully engaged in the symbol-related interactions.WeChat emoticons make the communication in cyberspace "vivid",which is originally very empty.Indeed,WeChat emoticons have caused negative effects in the network communication.For example,people's focusing on these graphic symbols makes the communication in cyberspace become hollow and misunderstandings happen frequently.Also,some bad inages easily go viral.These all deserve our attention.In light of that,we should properly use WeChat emoticons,making our communication in cyberspace more interetsting on the basis of it making sense.Users,WeChat and the society should pool their efforts to lead WeChat emoticons to spread and develop in a more healthy and beneficial way.
Keywords/Search Tags:WeChat emoticons, Graphic language, Symbol dessemination, Visual culture, Subculture
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