Visual Communication and emoji & Stickers(1)


In the times of reading pictures, the use of visual expression is common, and the status of visual expression in interpersonal communication is constantly improving. Especially in the instant communication represented by WeChat, the communication of visual words such as no expression package can be said to be soulless communication.


1>Role of stickers


The common visual words in life contain network emoji, that is, characters, graphics and other forms combined to simulate the expression, posture, action, in order to express feelings and emotions in the network communication of visual symbols.


stickers usually have the characteristics of language symbol and non-verbal symbol fusion, fast updating speed, multiple subject matter, strong epoch, and related to hot events and characters. Therefore, stickers often has the function of entertainment and regulating atmosphere, is that the user can express his mood and similar more appropriately.



2> Function of expression pack


Compared with words, expression packets can construct face-to-face interpersonal communication context.


In instant messaging, people's bodies are not in the same space, each other does not know what situation each other is in, and what expression is when expressing. The appearance of stickers is to construct face-to-face interpersonal communication context, stickers will often have expressions, movements, users use, have a strong sense of substitution. This sense of substitution, in interpersonal communication theory, is called imaginative interaction theory. Therefore, the stickers makes the sense of distance disappear, people as if still in face-to-face communication, can easily and accurately judge the meaning that the other person wants to express.


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