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graphicon

graphicon noun: any of various kinds of graphical icon used on social media platforms.

Noun

graphicon (plural graphicons)

  1. (Internet) Any of various kinds of graphical icon used on social media platforms.
    • Emoji are a subcategory of what Herring and Dainas (2017) classify as ‘graphicons’ (graphical icons) – a classification of graphical features found on social media platforms that also include emoticons, stickers, graphics interchange formats (GIFs), images and videos.2023 January 12, Lorenzo Logi and Michele Zappavigna, “A social semiotic perspective on emoji: How emoji and language interact to make meaning in digital messages”, in New Media & Society, page 1
    • In our study, we analyse a case in which the participants of a video-mediated workshop draw on images or animated GIFs (i.e. graphicons) in managing emotion discourse.2023, Elina Salomaa and Esa Lehtinen, “Graphicons as a vehicle for eliciting negative emotions in multimedial workplace interaction”, in Conversation Analytic Perspectives to Digital Interaction...

Forms of graphicon

pluralgraphicons

Origin of graphicon

Blend of graphical + icon.

Questions about graphicon

What does graphicon mean?
Graphicon means any of various kinds of graphical icon used on social media platforms.
What part of speech is graphicon?
Graphicon is a noun.
What is the plural of graphicon?
The plural of graphicon is graphicons.

Words near graphicon in the dictionary

  1. graphician
  2. graphicians
  3. graphick
  4. graphicly
  5. graphicness
  6. graphicon
  7. graphicons
  8. graphics
  9. graphics adapter
  10. graphics adapters
  11. graphics calculator

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