Fear and Loathing in Boston: the Roles of Different Emotions in Information Sharing on Social Media following a Terror Attack.
Year: 2019
Type: article
Abstract: Emotions are essential to how we communicate, and online discussions are no exception. As most of the analysis on emotion so far has looked at polarity rather than specific emotions, we do not yet have a full understanding of how different emotions spark different behaviours. This study examines how five different emotions are associated with information sharing in the context of a terror attack both on a large scale and when including geolocation information in the analysis. Contrary to what previous findings suggest, increased fear and contempt levels have a negative relation with increased levels of retweeting. Positive emotion in tweets meant a decrease in retweet rates in the geolocation specific data, but an increase when all tweets were considered.
Authors: Hissu Hyvärinen, Roman Beck
Institution: IT University of Copenhagen
Language: English
Subfield: Communication
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2953084925