everyday representations
1. I think phones have inherently changed our view of representations; apps, emojis, badges, alerts, which all are used to show consumers that their different applications are delivering and functioning as they are built to do. However, my main focus is the amount of transformational representation that text and iMessage, or similar, have changed dynamics about the act of having (and holding) conversations. This is a much more abstract representation than the physical manifestation of a mercator map, so I am focusing on the way emoji's have changed tone and direction of dialogue between people. Emoji's themselves, are representations, but they are objectively yellow faces stripped to neutrality with the sole purpose of portraying expressions and reactions. While contextually in society's younger generation, the misunderstanding of these emoji's is associated with old age or the "uncool" ability of not knowing how to communicate in the new age;
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