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In the absence of physical cues like tone of voice and facial expressions, young people are increasingly using digital communication tools in unexpected or unintended ways to allow for more nuanced online communication. This can involve using punctuation in new ways, spelling words differently, using uppercase and lowercase letters in non-traditional places, and using images, letters, and emojis to create hybrid or intertextual images and emoticons that convey a hyper-specific emotion. This is a new form of digital placemaking that merits its own scrutiny as more and more our digital relationships and interactions hold a weight that rivals our physical ones. Through a series of workshops, this project explores how digital communication has evolved within the constraints of modern-day messaging platforms, and how it can be furthered without them. These research methods could be used not only to understand and better document the ways in which these tools for digital communication are being used across different demographics, but also as a participatory method to understand how users think and feel in a more visual way. Furthermore, the analog method of collaging digital elements use

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Author

RYAN, ERIN

Publisher

American Anthropological Association; Wiley (Blackwell Publishing); Wiley (ISSN 1559-890X)

Published

2019

Language

EN

Field

Social Sciences