Zheng Xiong  – https://blogs.ubc.ca/webspaces/2021/09/12/vera-xiong/ 

I was elated to find that Vera and I had chosen to do the same show for our emoji story! Without spoiling, in case readers wanted to view either of ours, I was surprised by the stark contrast between the details we chose to translate to emojis to complete our week six task. 

Vera and I had used different emoji boards from the looks of it as our squids did not look the same. I appreciate Vera’s use of a white flag to indicate there was no surrender in the show. This was a key detail I feel I may have failed to include in my emoji story. Both Vea and I agree that if we could have used textual communication, our stories could have communicated more depth from the show’s plot. 

Vera’s exploration and connections of emojis to hieroglyphics was a brilliant way to loop how text’s pictographic origin is making a come. Since tone can be challenging to communicate through text alone, symbols in our everyday forms of communication could benefit from more photography.