With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, social media has rapidly become a crucial
communication tool for information generation, dissemination, and consumption. In this …

Background With the approval of two COVID-19 vaccines in Canada, many people feel a
sense of relief, as hope is on the horizon. However, only about 75% of people in Canada …

Background: Emoticons and emojis have become staple additions to modern-day
communication. These graphical icons are now embedded in daily society through the …

Background The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted human societies around the world. This
public health emergency was followed by a significant loss of human life; the ensuing social …

Understanding how tourists process and share risk messages during a crisis is critical for
tourism risk communication. This research develops and tests a theoretical framework of …

The COVID-19 pandemic has claimed a lot of lives around the world, not only with the virus
but also with misinformation. Many researchers have investigated COVID-19 misinformation …

This paper applies a social semiotic framework for exploring the functions of emoji in digital
discourse about working from home (WFH). This is an important and prevalent discourse in …

Background Measuring public response during COVID-19 is an important way of ensuring
the suitability and effectiveness of epidemic response efforts. An analysis of social media …

Emojis are small pictograms that are frequently embedded within micro-texts to more directly
express emotional meanings. To understand the changes in the emoji usage of internet …

Emojis have been used on different platforms and in different languages to express feelings
and emotions in online communication, which has led to their widespread familiarity among …