Francesco Barbieri

Reciprocity, Homophily, and Social Network Effects in Pictorial Communication: A Case Study of Bitmoji Sticker

Pictorial emojis and stickers are commonly used in online social communications. We analyzed social communications using Bitmoji stickers, which are expressive pictorial stickers made from avatars resembling actual users. We collect a large-scale dataset of 3 billion Bitmoji stickers' metadata, shared among 300 millio…