Jonathan E. Abel, "The New Real: Media and Mimesis in Japan from Stereographs to Emoji" (U of Minnesota Press, 2023)
New Books in Communications
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The Pooh Emoji
The anthropomorphic swirly poop that is is highly specific in its origin from a manga and it has a specific set of meanings there. People around the world have misapprehended it as things like soft serve ice cream because sometimes it shows up as being pink in color yellow even, depending on what phone interface you're using. The reason why this emoji is so popular might not have to do with the fact that we are all humans but rather that there's a very human kind of usage of emoji themselves. And then the book moves from talking about the nipper, the nipper dog and Ozu film for tilt his head at the victor talking machine, and ends with this kind
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