Technology affects the way people communicate and especially younger generations prefer using emojis in social media platforms and in text messaging. This interaction tremendously increases the significance of emoji, therefore emojis become important instruments that need to be actively used in marketing communication. Thus emojis are not only used in written communication but also in marketing communication elements such as advertising, packaging and brand. In the study, the main purpose is to find the relations between the amount of young generation usage of emoji and the perception that they have towards the brands that uses emoji. For the purpose, 332 students who are studying in Süleyman Demirel University Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Department of Business Administration are put to answer a survey. Data are analysed by frequency, reliability, factor, correlation and regression analysis. Hypothesis are analysed and the findings are evaluated. As a result, it is found that, the participants’ usage of emoji is remarkably high and the attitude toward emoji use are related to the perception of emoji use in brands. Additionally, 2 dimensions are used to determine the attitude scale toward the brand that use emoji (Çevikyiğit, 2017). 2 dimensions are convincing/persuasive and disturbance. It is found that emoji usage affect convincing/persuasive dimension positively; and the disturbance dimension negatively.
Primary Language | Turkish |
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Subjects | Business Administration |
Journal Section | Research Articles |
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Publication Date | October 28, 2019 |
Submission Date | April 20, 2019 |
Published in Issue | Year 2019 |