Ashley R. Dainas

Digital Communication and Language Discourse Analysis in Language Studies Impact of Technology on Adolescents Humor Studies and Applications Linguistics and Discourse Analysis

Publications

Citations

329

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Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

Publishing since 2015

Research summary

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Ashley R. Dainas studies how people communicate through digital media, with particular attention to visual elements like emoji, stickers, and other 'graphicons' (graphical icons used in online conversation). The work examines how these tools convey meaning, humor, and social relationships in platforms such as TikTok and Facebook. Methods draw on discourse analysis and computer-mediated communication analysis to interpret how online interactions unfold.

Digital and computer-mediated communicationEmoji and graphicon interpretationOnline discourse and interaction analysisVisual humor in digital mediaTechnology and social interaction

Publication activity has been intermittent over the past decade, with clustered output in 2020 and again in 2024-2025 and quiet years in between.

Generated by claude-opus-4-8 from public bibliographic data · Jul 11, 2026

Publication cadence

Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 1.0/year recently

Recent publications

Improbable conversations: Interactional dynamics in TikTok duets
Discourse Context & Media · 2025
Lightening the mood with visual humor
Internet Pragmatics · 2025
The Filtered Appeal: Evaluating the Impact of Appearance Enhancement on Effectiveness of Donation Requests
Lecture notes in computer science · 2024
A CMDA Approach to Studying Graphicons
Language Internet · 2024
Dialogues about Graphicons in Digital Communication: Introduction to the Special Issue
Language Internet · 2024
“If I’m Close with Them, It Wouldn’t Be Weird”: Social Distance and Animoji Use
Lecture notes in computer science · 2020
Interpreting emoji pragmatics
Pragmatics & beyond. New series · 2020
Gender and Age Influences on Interpretation of Emoji Functions
ACM Transactions on Social Computing · 2020
“Nice Picture Comment!” Graphicons in Facebook Comment Threads
Proceedings of the ... Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences/Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences · 2017

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Language Internet×2
Lecture notes in computer science×2
Proceedings of the ... Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences/Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences×1
ACM Transactions on Social Computing×1
Pragmatics & beyond. New series×1

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