Understanding the meaning of emoji in mobile social payments: Exploring the use of mobile payments as hedonic versus utilitarian through skin tone modified emoji usage

Despite research establishing emojis as sites of critical racial discourse, there is a paucity of literature examining their importance in the increasingly popular context of mobile payments. This is particularly important as new forms of social payment platforms such as Venmo bridge the seamlessnes...

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Main Authors: Dhiraj Murthy, Sabitha Sudarshan, Jung-Ah Lee, Charulata Ghosh, Pratik Shah, Wei-Jie Xiao, Ishank Arora, Clive Unger, Amelia Acker
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2020-11-01
Series:Big Data & Society
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951720949564