By: Curtis
There has been some studies about the variation of the emoticons in different nations. For example, this article that I found was researching Twitter on how the difference in nationality affected the use of emoticon being made horizontally like ^_^ and vertically like :). People from different geological areas differ in their visual content of the emoticon by the use of the mouth and the eyes. For instance, some people create a happy emoticon like this :), this is an example of using the mouth to inform the reader of the tweet that the sender is happy. Others create the emotion through the eyes of the emoticon like this ^_^. The argument that people use both mouth oriented and eye oriented emoticons from different regions is valid. People from different regions read things differently and therefore are more used to how they read it. In America, most people do emoticons like this :) or :-) because people tend to read words from left to right. In Asian countries, most countries had the readings from top to bottom in their history and therefore they are more likely to do ^_^ or ^O^.
Before this, there was other tests but those tests were flawed because they used data from Japan to generalize Asian countries and America for Western countries. Therefore, they had to restart the study from scratch by researching the tweets and the geological area of where the tweet came from. I feel that they invaded most of the people’s privacy while doing this because they found out private information including where they lived. That sounds just as scary as having someone searching through the web to find out information that you have posted on the web.
Resources
Park, Jaram, Young Min Baek, and Meeyoung Cha. "Cross-Cultural Comparison of Nonverbal Cues in Emoticons on Twitter: Evidence from Big Data Analysis." Journal of Communication 64.2 (2014): 333-54. Web. 22 Oct. 2016.
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