2018-02-15 22:38 GMT+01:00 Shawn Steele via Unicode <unicode@unicode.org>:
> > I don't find emoji to necessarily be a "post-literate" thing. Just a > different way of communicating. I have also seen them used in a > "pre-literate" fashion. Helping people that were struggling to learn to > read get past the initial difficulties they were having on their way to > becoming more literate. > If you just look at how more and more people "communicate" today on the Internet, it's only by video, most of them of poor quality and actually no graphic value at all where a single photo of the speaker on his profile would be enough. So the web is overwhelmed now by poor videos just containing speech, with very low value. But the worse is that this fabulous collection is almost impossible to qualify, sort, organize, it is not reusable, almost not transmissible (except on the social network where they are posted and where they'll soon disappear because there's simply no way to build efficient archives that would be usable in some near future: just a haystack where even the precious gold needles are extremely difficult to find. If people don't know how to read and cannot reuse the content and transmit it, they become just consumers and in fact less and less productors or creators of contents. Just look at opinions under videos, most of them are just "thumbs up", "like", "+1", barely counted only, unqualifiable (there's not even a thumb down). Even these terms are avoided on the interface and you just see an icon for the counter: do you have something to learn when seeing these icons? I fear that those in the near futuyre that won't be able to read and will only be able to listen the medias produced by others, will not even be able to make any judgement, and then will be easily manipulated. And it's in the mission of Unicode, IMHO, to promote litteracy because it is necessary for preserving, transmitting, and expanding the cultures, as well as reconciliate peopel with sciences instead of just following the voice of new gurus only because they look "fun".
