Emoji Usage Across Platforms: A Case Study for the Charlottesville Event
Abstract
We study emoji usage patterns across two social media platforms, one of them considered a fringe community called Gab, and the other Twitter. We find that Gab tends to comparatively use more emotionally charged emoji, but also seems more apathetic towards the violence during the event, while Twitter takes a more empathetic approach to the event.- Anthology ID:
- W19-3651
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 2019 Workshop on Widening NLP
- Month:
- August
- Year:
- 2019
- Address:
- Florence, Italy
- Venue:
- WiNLP
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 160–162
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/W19-3651
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Khyati Mahajan and Samira Shaikh. 2019. Emoji Usage Across Platforms: A Case Study for the Charlottesville Event. In Proceedings of the 2019 Workshop on Widening NLP, pages 160–162, Florence, Italy. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Emoji Usage Across Platforms: A Case Study for the Charlottesville Event (Mahajan & Shaikh, WiNLP 2019)