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In completing this task, I was reminded of Kress’ (2005) description of the affordances of words versus images, and wondered what — to use Kress’ term — “gains and losses” have come about with the remediation of emojis. Specifically:<\/p>\n
I relied mostly on ideas. In addition to my thoughts above on the connotations and interpretations of emojis, I also realize now that I conveyed my ideas in consideration of the subject, order, and time:<\/p>\n
I did start with the title, but this was not an intentional decision. I would say I started with the title simply because I’m used to starting written pieces with the title, just like how this blog post starts with “Task 6: An emoji story”. I wonder if there are languages where it is not the norm to start written pieces with the title, and how that might influence their approach if they were asked to complete this task.<\/p>\n
Admittedly, I did! I originally wanted to do Stranger Things<\/em> since I just finished volume 1 of season 4, but I couldn’t figure out a clear way to depict “Stranger” or “Things” or most of the plot in the show. This goes back to my earlier point about the finite number of emojis — my ability to tell stories was limited by the emojis currently available. Similarly, I imagine my use of text for this post may be limited by the words available, where these words influence my thinking and in turn limit my thoughts.<\/p>\n References<\/strong><\/p>\n Abdullahi, T. (2021, March 15). What do emojis mean? How millennials and Gen-Z use them very differently.<\/em> The National. https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/arts\/what-do-emojis-mean-how-millennials-and-gen-z-use-them-very-differently-1.1183746<\/a><\/p>\n Bolter, J. D. (2010). The breakout of the visual. In Writing space: Computers, hypertext, and the remediation of print<\/em> (pp. 47-76). Routledge.<\/p>\n Kress, G. (2005). Gains and losses: New forms of text, knowledge, and learning. Computers and Composition, 22<\/em>(1), 5-22. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.compcom.2004.12.004<\/a><\/p>\n Sanjay, S. (2020, October 1). Why does Gen Z use emojis to weirdly?<\/em> Vice. https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/7kpngb\/gen-z-young-people-use-emojis-differently-than-millennials<\/a><\/p>\n SAR School for Advanced Research. (2017, June 7). Lera Boroditsky, How the languages we speak shape the ways we think<\/em> [Video]. YouTube. https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iGuuHwbuQOg<\/a><\/p>\n Zaltzman, H., & McCulloch, G. (2019). 102. New rules [Audio podcast episode]. In The Allusionist.<\/em> https:\/\/www.theallusionist.org\/allusionist\/new-rules<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Reflection In completing this task, I was reminded of Kress’ (2005) description of the affordances of words versus images, and wondered what — to use Kress’ term — “gains and losses” have come about with the remediation of emojis. Specifically: In 2005, Kress noted that “there is a finite stock of words\u2014vague, general, nearly empty … <\/p>\n
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