"graphicon" meaning in English

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          "text": "Emoji are a subcategory of what Herring and Dainas (2017) classify as ‘graphicons’ (graphical icons) – a classification of graphical features found on social media platforms that also include emoticons, stickers, graphics interchange formats (GIFs), images and videos.",
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          "text": "In our study, we analyse a case in which the participants of a video-mediated workshop draw on images or animated GIFs (i.e. graphicons) in managing emotion discourse.",
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          "ref": "2020 March 6, Artie Konrad, Susan C Herring, and David Choi, “Sticker and Emoji Use in Facebook Messenger: Implications for Graphicon Change”, in Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, page 1",
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