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dc.contributor.authorRettberg, Jill Walker
dc.date.accessioned2017-11-08T12:51:47Z
dc.date.available2017-11-08T12:51:47Z
dc.date.issued2017-10-24
dc.PublishedRettberg, Jill Walker. 2017. “Hand Signs for Lip-Syncing: The Emergence of a Gestural Language on Musical.Ly as a Video-Based Equivalent to Emoji.” Social Media + Society 3, no. 4.eng
dc.identifier.issn2056-3051
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1956/16914
dc.description.abstractVideo-based communication is increasingly common online. This article looks at the hand signs that are used in lip-syncing videos on the app musical.ly and argues that they constitute a codified, non-verbal language of pictograms that is equivalent to emoji in text-based communication. Seeing the lip-syncing videos as performances allows us to situate the hand signs as the latest development in a long history of formalized gestures for theatrical performance. By recognizing this emergent gestural language as a performative element of online communication, we can reinterpret emoji and other forms of visual supplement to writing as part of a larger emerging system of communication where visual signs are becoming integrated into verbal language, not only in written language but also in video-based communication.en_US
dc.language.isoengeng
dc.publisherSAGEeng
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial CC BY-NCeng
dc.rights.urihttp://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/eng
dc.subjectappseng
dc.subjectgestureseng
dc.subjectemojieng
dc.subjectyoutheng
dc.subjectsocial mediaeng
dc.subjectself-representationeng
dc.subjectonline communicationeng
dc.subjectinterneteng
dc.titleHand Signs for Lip-syncing: The Emergence of a Gestural Language on Musical.ly as a Video-Based Equivalent to Emojieng
dc.typePeer reviewed
dc.typeJournal article
dc.description.versionpublishedVersion
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2017 The Authoreng
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1177/2056305117735751
dc.identifier.cristin1507378
dc.source.journalSocial Media + Society
dc.source.403
dc.source.144
dc.subject.nsiVDP::Samfunnsvitenskap: 200::Medievitenskap og journalistikk: 310


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