Jonathan E. Abel, "The New Real: Media and Mimesis in Japan from Stereographs to Emoji" (U of Minnesota Press, 2023)
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Emoji and the Problem With Media
In contemporary discourse they have been in a sense kind of saturated in in meaning, but also free. And thought of as kind of free and which is thought of as helping us to communicate betterFree and frictionless communication is something that comes up a lot with emoji. But it doesn't necessarily mean that it's it's enabling more frictionless and free communication because what these things mean in different places and to different people of different skin tones means something different. So we can say in a sense the, the free and frictionless kind of argument is one of immediacy,. This sort of representation or connecting something with the world solving a problem in the world, getting us to communicatebetter right? Can
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