graphicon

English

Etymology

Blend of graphical +‎ icon.

Noun

graphicon (plural graphicons)

  1. (Internet) Any of various kinds of graphical icon used on social media platforms.
    • 2023 December 1, Lorenzo Logi and Michele Zappavigna, “A social semiotic perspective on emoji: How emoji and language interact to make meaning in digital messages”, in New Media & Society‎[1], page 1:
      Emoji are a subcategory of what Herring and Dainas (2017) classify as ‘graphicons’ (graphical icons) – a classification of graphical features found on social media platforms that also include emoticons, stickers, graphics interchange formats (GIFs), images and videos.
    • 2023, Elina Salomaa and Esa Lehtinen, “Graphicons as a vehicle for eliciting negative emotions in multimedial workplace interaction”, in Conversation Analytic Perspectives to Digital Interaction: Practices, Resources, and Affordances‎[2], page 3:
      In our study, we analyse a case in which the participants of a video-mediated workshop draw on images or animated GIFs (i.e. graphicons) in managing emotion discourse.
    • 2020 June 3, Artie Konrad, Susan C Herring, and David Choi, “Sticker and Emoji Use in Facebook Messenger: Implications for Graphicon Change”, in Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication‎[3], archived from the original on 27 May 2024, page 1:
      Since its introduction in the early 1970s, textual computer-mediated communication (CMC) has been enriched by graphical icons (henceforth graphicons) that express emotion and attitude.
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