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Identity Signals in Emoji Do not Influence Perception of Factual Truth on Twitter
Alexander Robertson, Walid Magdy, Sharon Goldwater
Prior work has shown that Twitter users use skin-toned emoji as an act of self-representation to express their racial/ethnic identity. We test whether this signal of identity can i…
Black or White but never neutral: How readers perceive identity from yellow or skin-toned emoji
Alexander Robertson, Walid Magdy, Sharon Goldwater
Research in sociology and linguistics shows that people use language not only to express their own identity but to understand the identity of others. Recent work established a conn…
Semantic Journeys: Quantifying Change in Emoji Meaning from 2012-2018
Alexander Robertson, Farhana Ferdousi Liza, Dong Nguyen +2
The semantics of emoji has, to date, been considered from a static perspective. We offer the first longitudinal study of how emoji semantics changes over time, applying techniques…