Dialogues about Graphicons in Digital Communication: Introduction to the Special Issue

This special issue is an interdisciplinary space where scholars from different specializations share their research on how graphicons are used, understood, and processed in online communication. Perspectives represented include CMDA, semiotics, linguistics, and communication. Each article draws on a different kind of data, and different graphicon types are included. In this introduction, we introduce the articles in the special issue and outline potential directions for future graphicon research