Emotional expression online: Emoticons punctuate website text messages

Journal of Language and Social Psychology

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 299-307

  Provine, Robert R ^a   Spencer, Robert J ^a   Mandell, Darcy L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

Affective computing; Computer mediated communication; E mail; Emoticons; Human computer interactions; Punctuation effect; Text messaging

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548064955     PISSN: 0261927X     EISSN: 15526526     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0261927X06303481     Document Type: Article

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