刘飞 王浩 许小可
大连民族大学信息与通信工程学院
Usage Behavior and Cause of Emoji in Social Media
LIU Fei, WANG Hao, XU Xiaoke
College of Information and Communication Engineering, Dalian Minzu University
Abstract：In order to explore the usage behavior and cause of emojis on social media, we analyzed the use of emojis in 1 800 958 microblogs under the topic of "Kunshan Case" on Sina Weibo. First, we analysis the frequency of emoji to study the phenomenon of repeated usage of emoji in the group, and then we classify popular emojis and micro-blog texts, we analyze the diversity of emoji usage of individual users. The result shows that: There are a lot of emojis in Weibo and the frequency of emojis is long-tailed and follow Zipf's Law; The evolution of popular emojis can reflect the public opinion of the event; Individual users are used to using 2~3 same emojis or different emojis with similar emotions. The emojis used by users are often related to the topics they express and are influenced by the psychology of herds, and the phenomenon of co-occurrence emojis is usually to strengthen the emotions expressed.
Keywords：emoji；public opinion；social media；emotional expression
通讯作者: 许小可(1979-),男,辽宁庄河人,博士,教授,主要研究方向为网络科学和社交网络大数据。
引用本文:
刘飞, 王浩, 许小可. 社交媒体中表情符号的使用行为及成因分析[J]. 复杂系统与复杂性科学, 2020, 17(3): 70-77.
LIU Fei, WANG Hao, XU Xiaoke. Usage Behavior and Cause of Emoji in Social Media[J]. Complex Systems and Complexity Science, 2020, 17(3): 70-77.
