Article: For better or worse, adults learn to say it with emoticons

Article: Teachers unsure whether to :) or :(; More teens are using ...
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  April 25, 2008 ;     700+ words ...Byline: ANICK JESDANUN - Associated Press NEW YORK - It's nothing to LOL about: Despite best efforts to keep ... assignments formal, two-thirds of teens admit in a survey that emoticons and other informal styles have crept in. The Pew Internet ...

Article: Emoticons evoke emotions in e-mails.(Life-Today)
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  June 26, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... Worden of Pequot Lakes, Minn., calls emoticons, those sideways punctuation faces used ... magicians Penn and Teller - wrote that emoticons are used by people who would dot their ... High-Tech Dictionary now displays 239 emoticons, including shocked, :-o (a pound ...

Article: sideways glance; Emoticons add personality to e-mail ...
Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque);  August 5, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... Had he been well-versed in the use of emoticons, it is quite possible epic poet Dante ... giant of Italian literature missed using emoticons - small punctuation marks arranged to ... Rea said. "That's why I like emoticons. It's permission to put a personality ...

Article: Emoti-whats? Emoticons :-).
Appleseeds;  April 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... about those tidy little bundles of symbols called emoticons. Emoticons are a series of keyboard symbols, letters, and ... that, as you see at right. The funny thing about emoticons is E M0 that they need to be read sideways. So ...

Article: A Generational Approach to Using Emoticons as Nonverbal ...
Technical Communication;  May 1, 2005 ;     525 words ...A Generational Approach to Using Emoticons as Nonverbal Communication F. Krohn ... article is to help determine whether ... emoticons in computer mediated communication ... cues in electronic CMC. A variety of emoticons are then described including the traditional ...

Article: Emoticons
Film - Dienst;  October 9, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... for- men ihre Lippen zu einem Kuss: Emoticons, diese vielseitigen, meist in Gestalt ... Windows Messenger. Den Klick auf die Emoticons in petto und das Gegenber durch die Webcam ... junge Internet-Userinnen die wahren Emoticons, die dem eigenen Filmportrt, das im ...

Article: Commentary: Tech Talk: Emoticons -- the beginning of a new ...
The Daily Record (Baltimore);  May 2, 2008 ;     577 words ... ... to update your emoticon vocabulary. Emoticons are commonly associated with the communication ... or just be left as a fad. The use of emoticons is undoubtedly informal in most documents ... communication style. For the most part, emoticons are simple to learn because the letters ...