"As we spend less time together in person, emoji fills a hole in allowing us to convey our ever-shifting sense of identity to both those who matter most and strangers. Emoji’s are now being used to represent who we are and what we stand for."
In this short article, Goel argues that digital communication can never convey real human interaction. He explains how the 'Emoji' was created to bridge this gap between digital communication and face-to-face human interaction. He claims that the introduction of emoji's into digital communication is an attempt to reduce the need to connect in person.
However, people are are dissatisfied that emoji's on representative of themselves. Goel uses Rayouf Alhumedhi's campaign as an example of this. Alhumedhis campaigns for an emoji to be created showing the faces to be wearing a hijab to represent female, muslim social media users.
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This article has given me inspiration for some of my images for my photo-essay. I intend to incorporate famous icons, emojis and WhatsApp text bubbles into my images to explore the points raised about face-to-face human interaction by Goel in this article.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/can-emoji-replace-human-interaction-samir-goel?trk=hp-feed-article-title-channel-add
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