"Emotion recognition, like a lot of other contemporary, “disruptive” technology, relies on flattening the way that we actually interact with each other."
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I like Barrett's model (her book is great) but it feels incomplete. It needs a better account of stylized affect performances, from social convention to masks to comics to emoji. The affect vocabulary may have no neuroscientific basis, but it is definitely a part of culture.
I like this work by Wiseman and Gould about how people personalize the meanings of emojis to form private languages research.gold.ac.uk/22850/
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Yes, interesting. But there always seems to be this tension between universality and locality in claims about emotional meaning. That feels like an intellectual cul de sac, like endlessly parsing nature v nurture
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