Jonathan E. Abel, "The New Real: Media and Mimesis in Japan from Stereographs to Emoji" (U of Minnesota Press, 2023)
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The Importance of Emoji in Gaming
I think it embodies that thing that you were talking about very early on which is the what is the, the, what happens when the new real is no longer new. So this means you have to grapple with some interesting questions and thinking about emoji about their cultural and material lead material embeddedness. You talk about them as sort of contingent symbols with universalist pretensions and how they become a part of the fabric of everyday life. And that has meant to us as users as consumers of them about discourses of race, techno orientalism etc in the humdrum of the new media. I certainly understand that feeling of like they are the no longer new new real medium that we've been
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