Your Feels As Free Labor: Emoticons, Emotional Cultures, and Facebook

If you haven’t yet noticed (you’ve probably noticed), Facebook likes to appropriate features from competing apps and platforms. You can credit the demise of the old “[Name] is…” status update prompt, for instance, to the rise of Twitter. You may also recognize the “share” feature on your friends’ status updates from Tumblr; the place check-ins … Continue reading Your Feels As Free Labor: Emoticons, Emotional Cultures, and Facebook