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Rearranging Notions of the Digital and the Physical

Keywords of the 21st Century

Frerk Hillmann-Rabe, Lina Boes, Vanessa Richter, Katrin Schuenemann, Malte-Kristof Müller, Philine Schomacher, Elisa Budian, Lara Jueres, Authors

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Emojis - Conclusion

Most of the existing situations in the digital world have an action in the physical world as origin. The post on Facebook (digital dimension) wouldn’t exist if the user wouldn’t have had written (physical dimension) it. But how many factors of these two different aspects - the digital and the physical - do really coincide? The feelings one has in the physical world are highly differentiate and individual phenomenons. So that’s how they should be treated in the digital world as well. Everyone on their own should find a way to connect the physical with the digital. Because I think that the social view of people is constantly oscillating between the urge of being an individual (so being independent) and belonging to a certain group of people (that’s dependent). That shows the digital world quite well: blogs are the most efficient way to show your identity. This identity doesn’t always reflect their whole identity of the physical world. And to mingle is actually the exact opposite, as one is looking for several different contacts. So I think as going in both directions are human urges, it must be possible that these urges are also fully represented in the digital world. So maybe everyone should create their own emojis to express their feelings properly. And even if it’s only a smiling person. I don’t think that you’re smiling at every person in the same way, are you?
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