Emoticons and social interaction on the Internet: the importance of social context
Emoticons and social interaction on the Internet: the importance of social context
Daantje Derks,A. Bos,J. Grumbkow
2007 · DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2004.11.013
Computers in Human Behavior · 441 Citações
TLDR
Results showed that participants used more emoticons in socio-emotional than in task-oriented social contexts, and an interaction was found between valence and kind of context; in negative, task- oriented contexts subjects used the least emoticons.