Group 3 Thesis
Group 3 Thesis
Group 3 Thesis
A Research Paper
Main Campus
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Chapter 1
hypothesis, significance of the study, scope and limitations of the study and
definition of terms.
INTRODUCTION
not only with this plain texts but with the use of emoticons also known as
emoji’s.
The emoji’s have become the simplest way of expressing our emotions
attitude base on how they use emoji to express their feelings. This has become
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The objective of this study is to know the level of interpretation skills of the
media emoji’s on various social media emoji’s on various social media app like
Many century have gone by, and our way of communication in the early
year is way too easy to comprehend for it is written as plain texts. So as times
to a whole new way of expressing oneself. Then there came this tiny graphic
facial expressions and images depicting emotions of human and now was
called emoji. Emoji’s are commonly added into the message itself to express
our emotions into much more effective way. Everyone uses emoji to represent
the different variety of emotion of the person conveying message as well as the
receiver in giving feedback to the message sent. This little image have become
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well as activities, it is also one of the trend the 21st century learners has been
enjoying.
According to All ACM Journal (2019), that emoji have become popular
process over 60 million and 6 billion messages with indicated emoji per day.
Not only in Facebook and Facebook Messenger the emoji had become popular.
As off 2015, even in Instagram you can comment, transmit message, and post
using emoji. They also reported that in Instagram, many people had replace
slang terms in the way of their communication into an emoji in photo. They
indicated that in different social media site, they study how emoji used in
meaning, and interpret text wit emoji that can be essential to the society who
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explosion in popularity in recent time. The terms “social stickers” are define as
fun. Stickers has come to a time where tech is making the move to becoming
more human. Also include that with new form of communication we tend to not
especially stickers have been invented with a “human touch”. Through feeling,
stickers had been invented so that the receiver didn’t feel hash regarding on
the message that they receive. According to Infogr8.com stickers has become
different language, but still understand the sentiment behind the annoyed emoji
face.
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possess special talents and skills and therefore interpreting skills have become
one of the hot issues that received wide attention. Also, based on the analysis
of interpreting process and all aspects of the teaching of it, the experts, at home
and abroad, are generally convinced that it is the prime task and ultimate
interpreters what kind of skills they must possess and how to possess
necessary skills effectively. In this case, the current thesis will probe into the
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THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
Emoji have been around long enough to become part of our everyday
and the 2015 Oxford Dictionaries word of the year was "Face with Tears of
Joy." But depending on who you're messaging, your emojified text might be
on their own. But to constitute their own language, they would need a key
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made. These constraints may mean that they will never be able to achieve even
the most basic complexity that we can create with normal and natural drawings.
Emoji’s are positive but they can also cause miscommunication and this
revealed that emoji’s can cause failure of conversing. It was found that many
people interpret the same emoji in different ways. There were some people who
thought emoji’s were very positive but a few found them irritating and useless.
used to serve or enhance or mute the nature of message being delivered. And
(Filik, Tucan, and Turner 2019). The study revealed that messages were not
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meaning. We can know about the sarcastic factor of emoticons in this study
and we can evaluate their value and effects in the field of communication. They
can support or beautify messages but they cannot replace verbal text to a large
extent.
Emoticons now have become a part of our culture. Smart phone or social
messages and time saving they are at situations. Emoticons were actually
important place in a user’s mind (Ip 2019). This study revealed that emoji’s did
not increase the positivity, but they were more extreme much more than
punctuation marks. Gone are those times where we use exclamation marks
and punctuation marks now it’s the era emoticons, which are used after every
that emoticons had a higher impact and among the emoticons it’s the positive
emoji’s which have a higher impact it boosts up the messages. Despite of very
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normal simple instant messages emoticons can make a big difference in how
emotionally they take messages with emoticons. It might create some problems
become more still they are considered very significant for messaging among
the users.
CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK
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This study focused on the Social Media Emoji’s: The Level of Student
Comprehension Skills.
1.1. Stickers;
1.3. GIF?
RESEARCH HYPOTHESIS
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This study aims to find out the effects of social media emoji’s to the
Polytechnic University. This useful and relevant information acquired from the
Students, the findings of the study can serve as a guide to the student who
students and also to know the effects of social media emoji’s to their student’s
interpretation skills.
Parents, it will serve as a basis to help the parents who has a child that is using
social media emoji’s. Also, it will help them to understand the effects of social
media emoji’s.
Community, the result of this research study could help the people around as.
To give concern to the person using social media emoji’s. Also give knowledge
to each one.
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interpretation skills of the students of BSED I-C Social Science. The survey will
2020 who will represent the population. This study will not cover other problems
that are not considered as one of the effects of social media emoji’s. The other
students which do not fail as part of BSED I-C Social Science students are not
within the scope of this research. This study would be done through the
strategy of the researchers will able to know the effects of social media emoji’s
DEFINITION OF TERMS
readers.
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Social Media Emoji’s. Emoji’s have become a time digital language. Their
use on social networks is becoming ever more popular; and this is not only due
to their ability to transmit emotion, behaviours, and physical emotions but also
media stickers to remind your customers about your online presence, or use
raster graphic file and is the second most common image format used on the
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group to another through the use of mutually understood signs, symbols, and
semiotic rule.
Chapter 2
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Related Literature
are converted from emoticons have been used since the early times,
thinking it already begun lately ad was new to us. Although before these
understanding emoji” emoticons also known as emoji has been used since
actual icon, emoticons are a series of text characters that are used to form
message sent. She also defined every colors meaning such; Blue
symbolizes loyalty and trust, and the color Green represents jealousy and
an opposed to written language, She stated that having the used of social
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Laura Marks (2010), uses the term “lame infinity” to describe the
communication process.
Katy Steinmetz (2018), conclude in her study about GIFs and Emoji
text and mobile messages. They could feel that they are free to express
the use emoticons varies by geography, age, gender and social class
showing that it was like regional dialects and languages. He had given an
those who spells out the word completely and those who uses shorter
version without a hyphen who tends to use abbreviations rather than the
exact word.
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people who includes emoji, stickers and emoticons on their messages tends
written message can “intensify” it’s meaning (Derks et al.2007). Which could
much effort.
affect as to how the message sent will be perceived by the receiver and
how could the receiver compose and give feedback to the sender itself.
Related Studies
effect to all the people who using social media. Everyone can construct a
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public and semi-public profile within a connected system. Since these are
being used by students and became a part of their daily lives, these have
out to a larger group of people. The ability to express diversity through emoji
relationship. Emoji helps represent the human gestures, voice tones and
Ellison and Boyd (2007), define social network site as web based
profile within a connected system (2) articulate list of another users with
whom they share connection and (3) view and traverse their list of
connection and they made by others within the system. Social media
(2017), suggest that recent studies have found that people interpret emoji
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carried out a controlled study with 2,482 participants who interpreted emoji
do not support the hypothesis in prior work: when emoji are interpreted in
surveyed 436 people about their use of emoji and ran an interactive study
Android and iOS emoji. Our results show variations between people’s
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Ayvaz (2017), suggest that this study investigates the usage of emoji
characters on social networks and the effects of emoji in text mining and
data for some global positive and negative events to analyse the impact of
Chapter 3
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
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Research Design
the one which information is collected without changing the environment the
method involved range from the survey which describes the status, the
The primary sources of data utilized in this study were the students
Sta.Cruz Campus. It is composed of thirty students (30) from the BSED I-C
Social Science.
for the research which are the students’ who have always used Social
Media Emoji’s.
Sampling Technique
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Purposive sampling will be use to select the thirty subjects who will
Crossman, 2017).
Research Procedure
its contents. When everything is settled, the study presented and studied.
The data gathered from the responses of the selected respondents’ were
Research Instrument
In order to collect data, rating scale questionnaire was used for the
The questionnaire has a rating scale that had a total of five items
Rating Description
5 Strongly Agree
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4 Agree
3 Neutral
2 Disagree
1 Strongly Disagree
Statistical Treatment
The data obtained were treated statistically with the use of mean and
skills.
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