[pt] O que explica a persistência da nação como objeto central de identificação no Irã durante as décadas de 1960 e 1970? Como podemos entender o apelo e a difusão do nacionalismo quando ele pode significar simultaneamente um caminho e uma armadilha para a descolonização, como advertiu Fanon? Esta tese aborda algumas dessas questões em relação ao nacionalismo anticolonial no Irã, suas possibilidades políticas, fantasias e desejos decoloniais. Discuto como três figuras articularam discursos de libertação nacional que mobilizaram diferentes apegos com a nação no Irã pré-1979, tentando compreender o que essas relações afetivas com o nacionalismo forneciam como imaginário político e subjetividade. Através de um referencial psicanalítico apoiado nas teorias de Jacques Lacan e Frantz Fanon, analiso os escritos de Jalal Al-e Ahmad, Ali Shariati e Forugh Farrokhzad para apreender os ritmos e texturas de gozo (jouissance) esses imaginários assumiram enquanto eram constituídos discursivamente em torno de significantes e identificações específicos, como nacionalismo, terceiro-mundismo e o Islã. Esta dissertação emprega uma análise emocional de discurso para avaliar os significados que a consciência nacional iraniana evocou na forma de desejos e fantasias de libertação e descolonização. Assim, também pretendo reconhecer e discutir os emaranhados transnacionais e as conexões simbólicas que algumas dessas figuras iranianas articularam no Terceiro Mundo, posicionando-as em uma infraestrutura de conectividade anticolonial e mostrando como elas estão em dívida com a teoria e a práxis de outros movimentos, intelectuais e lutas. / [en] What accounts for the persistence of the nation as a central object of identification in Iran during the 1960s and 1970s? How can we understand the appeal and pervasiveness of nationalism when it simultaneously could signify one path to and a pitfall of decolonization, as Fanon warned? This thesis addresses some of these questions in relation to anticolonial nationalism in Iran, its political possibilities, decolonial fantasies, and desires. I discuss how three figures articulated discourses of national liberation which mobilized different attachments to the nation in pre-1979 Iran, attempting to understand what these affective relations with nationalism provided as political imaginary and subjectivity. Through a psychoanalytical framework rested on the theories of Jacques Lacan and Frantz Fanon, I analyze the writings of Jalal Al-e Ahmad, Ali Shariati, and Forugh Farrokhzad to grasp the rhythms and textures of enjoyment those imaginaries assumed while being discursively constituted around specific signifiers and identifications, such as nationalism, Third Worldism, and Islam. This thesis relies on emotional discourse analysis to assess the meanings Iranian national consciousness evoked in the form of desires and fantasies of liberation and decolonization. Thus, I also aim to acknowledge and discuss the transnational entanglements and symbolic connections some of these Iranian figures articulated within the Third World, positioning them in an infrastructure of anticolonial connectivity and showing how they are in debt to the theory and praxis of other movements, intellectuals, and struggles.

Emoticons have been shown to be the nonverbal cues of computer-mediated communication and could therefore be a rich source of information, but they are not used in the workplace because they are considered unprofessional. This study aimed to look at the effects of emoticons on relationships, specifically between a leader and member. Participants were asked to read a fake email from a fake boss and answer several questions in regard to leader-member exchange, affective presence, perceived message positivity, perceived masculinity/femininity of the fake boss, and perceived professionalism. This study found that the use of a positive emoticon in an email message increased leader-member exchange, mediated by positive affective presence (though the use of the emoticon and positive affective presence were not linked). This study also found that when participants received a message with an emoticon, they found the sender to be both more feminine and less professional.

This thesis attempts to contribute to the study of punctuation marks (including emoji and emoticons) used in computer-mediated communication. It aims to describe their role in abusive comments on YouTube videos with LGBT content and the extent to which their use differs in respectful and hateful comments on such videos. The analysis concentrates also on how the distribution of punctuation marks differs in relation to the polarity, content and length of comments. The thesis also provides a comparison of the frequency of the occurrence of punctuation marks in both respectful and hateful comments. In addition to that, this paper attempts to classify emoji and emoticons according to their role in the text. Key words Computer-mediated communication, YouTube, emoji, emoticons, punctuation, Internet communication

This study investigates the use of emoticons and abbreviations in a mode of Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC), blogs written by Swedish individuals in English. The aim of the study is to find out whether the emoticons and abbreviations used in these blogs are tailor-made by Swedish users or if they are the same as those found on the rest of the Internet. Another question asked by the study concerns if the use of emoticons and abbreviations differs depending on the gender and age group of the blogger. The method used is mainly concordance searches in a corpus, using the concordance program AntConc to find particular features of CMC. The data used for the study is a corpus of one hundred thousand words from blogs all over the Internet on a wide range of topics written by males and females of different age groups. The results of the investigation indicate that no local variations of abbreviations and emoticons exist within Swedish blogs written in English. While emoticons were used more frequently by males than their female counterparts, abbreviations were used mostly by female bloggers. It also appeared that bloggers aged thirty or younger use emoticons and abbreviations most frequently, suggesting that their use was influenced quite significantly by the age of the blogger. The conclusion drawn from this is that if any eventual local Swedish variations of emoticons and abbreviations, they exist in Swedish blogs and not English ones, as those discovered in this study do not deviate from what already exist in blogs written by native speakers of English.

Emotikoner är ett vanligt inslag vid datormedierad kommunikation, såsom på den sociala nätverkstjänsten Twitter. Emotikoner tycks ha en vedertagen roll som känslomarkörer i en text, men forskning har visat att de även har andra funktioner av mer pragmatisk art. En mer nyanserad bild av emotikoners funktioner på Twitter kan öka förståelsen av hur de ska tolkas i texter och stödja utvecklingen av automatiska textanalyser där emotikoner förekommer. Då funktionerna hos emotikoner ur ett pragmatiskt perspektiv tidigare har studerats främst inom ramen för andra språk och kommunikationskanaler bidrar denna studie med en analys av kommunikativa funktioner hos emotikoner i twitterinlägg skrivna på svenska. 202 twitterinlägg innehållande fem olika typer av emotikoner analyseras med utgångspunkt i existerande litteratur om emotikoner samt pragmatiska teorier som talaktsteori, artighetsteori och implikatur. Sju olika funktioner identifieras. Analysen indikerar att emotikonernas främsta funktion är att markera känslor, men förekommer gör även funktioner som förändrar tolkningen av avsändarens avsikt med yttrandet, genom att mildra eller förstärka den så kallade illokuta styrkan, samt funktioner som markerar humor och ironi. Resultatet bekräftar emotikonernas främsta roll som känslomarkörer även i svenska twitterinlägg, men påvisar också att de även kan ha andra funktioner där de förändrar tolkningen av avsändarens avsikt med texten.

[pt] Essa dissertação busca compreender os efeitos e afetos gerados por narrativas e contranarrativas transnacionais do HIV e da Aids, partindo de expoentes da chamada virada afetiva ou emocional nas Relações Internacionais que se dedicam ao estudo da circulação de emoções, e da produção de economias afetivas, por meio de narrativas. Partindo do entendimento de que narrativas constituídas por figuras de linguagem, como a metáfora e a metonímia, são produtoras de afecções ou emoções que materializam as superfícies dos corpos individuais e coletivos, serão analisados dois conjuntos de narrativas do HIV e da Aids que desde a década de 1980 tentam fazer sentido da origem do vírus e do estado clínico. No primeiro conjunto, exploraremos como narrativas transnacionais constituídas por metáforas e metonímias como peste gay, câncer rosa e o grupo de risco dos 5Hs (homossexuais, heroinômanos, haitianos, hemofílicos e hookers) se proliferaram, e junto com elas circularam emoções que produziram efeitos de fronteira, afastamento, discriminação e exclusão. No segundo conjunto, exploraremos como outra economia afetiva, impulsionada por contranarrativas que buscam ressignificar as narrativas do HIV e da Aids, é produzida por organizações não governamentais LGBTQIA+, pela UNAIDS, por blogs ou comunidades sociais online, obras cinematográficas, ou testemunhos de personalidades com HIV. Surgida em um contexto marcado por informações mais concretas sobre a infecção e o aparecimento de medicamentos mais eficazes ao controle viral, essa economia afetiva luta contra a sedimentação de emoções negativas em pessoas que vivem com HIV e se vale de estratégias narrativas como a aplicação de novos termos para explicar o HIV e a Aids, a desassociação de termos metonímicos, implicando que o HIV não é Aids e Aids não é morte, e de termos metafóricos, desconstruindo a ideia de peste gay ou câncer rosa. Em uma tentativa de tecer as narrativas do HIV e da Aids com movimentos de contestação e ressignificação da epidemia das narrativas, essa pesquisa busca compreender as contranarrativas como imposições urgentes de uma nova construção do que o HIV e a Aids que desfaça efeitos de fronteira e produza possibilidades de afecções outras, que aproximem e conectem. / [en] This master thesis seeks to understand the effects and affects generated by transnational narratives and counter-narratives of HIV and AIDS, based on exponents of the emotional turn in International Relations that are dedicated to the study of the circulation of emotions, and the production of affective economies, through narratives. Starting from the understanding that narratives constituted by figures of speech, such as metaphor and metonymy, are producers of affections or emotions that materialize the surfaces of individual and collective bodies, we will analyze two sets of HIV and AIDS narratives that since the 1980s have tried to make sense of the origin of the virus and the clinical condition. In the first set, we will explore how transnational narratives constituted by metaphors and metonyms such as gay plague, pink cancer – associated to the gay community, and the 5Hs risk group (homosexuals, heroin addicts, Haitians, hemophiliacs and hookers) proliferated, and along with them circulated emotions that produced border effects, estrangement, discrimination, and exclusion. In the second set, we will explore how another affective economy, driven by counter-narratives that seek to resignify HIV and AIDS narratives, is produced by LGBTQIA+ non-governmental organizations, UNAIDS, online blogs or social communities, cinematic works, or testimonies of HIV personalities. Appearing in a context marked by more concrete information about the infection and the appearance of more effective drugs for viral control, this affective economy fights against the sedimentation of negative emotions in people living with HIV and uses narrative strategies such as the application of new terms to explain HIV and AIDS, the disassociation of metonymic terms, implying that HIV is not AIDS and AIDS is not death, and of metaphoric terms, deconstructing the idea of gay plague or pink cancer. In an attempt to weave HIV and AIDS narratives with movements of contestation and resignification of the epidemic of narratives, this research seeks to understand counter-narratives as urgent impositions of a new construction of what HIV and AIDS is that undoes border effects and produces possibilities of other affections, that bring together and connect.

This paper aimed to examine the use of emojis and emoticons in Twitter data. Therefore, the study utilized Twitter data on how emojis and emoticons were used in English in the Curators of Sweden project by Swedish individuals. Moreover, considering the fast and technology-filled world humans live in, new terms and concepts have emerged, such as CMC, a computer-mediated communication, namely, a form of communication or information conveyed through a digital and virtual mechanism, known in the postmodern world today as social media. Furthermore, the study showcased how individuals of both sexes use emojis and emoticons provided on Twitter to express themselves as a new form of virtual emotional language while also considering gender differences. The results of the study indicate that emojis and emoticons have been used extensively in Twitter data and play a huge role in expressing feelings and emotions in Twitter communication. While emojis and emoticons were used more frequently by females than males. The findings of this paper indicated the importance of ample space that social media, namely Twitter and its set of provided emojis and emoticons, occupy in lives. Thus, modern communication tools manifested in the virtual language emojis and emoticons, which in their role supported emotional communication. / nej

Gamification research has for a long time been interested in determining its definition and in which fields it works. By combining several game design elements and applying them in different non-game contexts it has been proven to successfully enhance certain activities, partly depending on the users and the contexts. Modern gamification research has started looking into how it works and in doing so, examining the individual effects of the game design elements. In this study, feedback and clear goals have been chosen as the game design elements to be examined when implemented individually in to-do lists. Feedback was represented as emoticons that changed from neutral to happy as tasks were checked off the list. Clear goals were implemented in the lists as an explicit goal. Together with a plain to-do list, nine participants used the three lists for nine days while keeping a visual diary. Afterward, they were subjected to interviews regarding their experiences. The framework of the self-determination theory was used in analyzing the results. The results showed that when using the list with feedback the participants were slightly better at clearing tasks but that the motivation, sometimes, seemed to come from trying to avoid negative feelings that the neutral emoticons seemed to invoke. The list with clear goals showed that in many cases the participants were actively trying to reach the given goal, seemingly, even when the participants mentioned not doing so. It was also, more often than not, experienced as controlling.

My intention for this show is to explore the effect of alienation that ironically is being produced by social media. The principal concept is developed around shame, sharing, and notoriety on three different social media platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, and Telegram. This show explores the social media perception of myself in the realms of human interaction, identity, and memory in social media through the critical appropriation of the languages of design and photography. The installation with four Facebook profile pictures in large scale and framed looks at the way a personal image can convey the impression of widely different personalities. The selections of personal exchanges over Facebook and Instagram show the degree to which social media creates its own visual language and mode of communication, which sometimes becomes separated from reality and intention. The show extends its reach to performance and direct interaction with the viewer through the availability of stickers for comments by the profile pictures and a third area, where viewers can write or draw their own messages through the simple medium of chalk, which can then be rendered in virtual form through posts on a specially created webpage. The viewer should thus be challenged to ask, to what degrees do words and images communicate the essence of our selves and our own will. / Includes bibliography. / Thesis (M.F.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2016. / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection

有關表情符號的跨文化分析，現有之研究皆以亞洲國家（例如日本或韓國）和美國做比較。然而此間差異不僅包含文化上的，也包含語言使用上的不同。如此一來，在了解影響人們使用表情符號的因素時，文化背景與語言的因素混雜一體，難以區辨各別影響狀況。本研究試著控制文化的因素，將文化背景具有一定相似性，但官方語言不同的新加坡和台灣做比較。結果顯示新加坡與台灣使用者確實表現出不同的表情符號使用偏好。前者傾向使用橫式表情符號，後者則以使用直式表情符號居多。形式的不同也導致使用者在組合表情符號的眼型與口型時呈現明顯差異。此外，語言背景也會影響一個人對表情符號的認識與解讀能力。本研究發現，此現象在新加坡的受試者身上較為顯著，他們在認識與解讀台灣使用者的常用表情符號時較容易出現障礙。最後，本論文也討論了研究結果的意義以及研究者對於未來研究的建議。 / Existing literature on the cross-cultural use of emoticons often discuss how styles of emoticons vary by comparing countries such as Japan or Korea with the United States. However, these countries differ both in terms of their culture as well as the language used in the country. Thus, there remains a dilemma in distinguishing whether the effects of cultural background or language plays a greater role in determining the style of emoticons a person uses. This research explores this issue by comparing the use of emoticons between users from Singapore and Taiwan. Both countries have similar cultural background but differ in terms of their first language. By focusing on the difference of language and holding cultural background as a constant, results indicated that users from both countries do have a difference in preference for emoticons style. While the former predominantly use horizontal emoticons, the latter prefer vertical emoticons instead. Such difference has also resulted in different representation of the eyes and mouths of emoticons used by Singaporean and Taiwanese users. In addition, it has also been found that language background has an effect on a person’s ability to recognize and interpret emoticons used by natives from the other culture. This situation was more prominent among Singaporean participants as they were found to be less capable in recognizing and interpreting emoticons commonly used by their Taiwanese counterparts. The implications of these findings and recommendations for future research are discussed.