[Air-l] Emotional Content in Weblogs and News Sites Online
Gerd Stodiek
gstodiek at lycos.com
Sat May 15 03:18:38 PDT 2004
I am in the process of writing my Master thesis on a comparative study of
weblogs and online news sites. One of my measures is emotional content. I
want to find out whether weblogs offer more emotional content than online
news sites based in print, broadcasting, and the web. I looked at an email
and information richness study by Panteli (2000) and there I discovered
that emoticons, capital letters or abbreviations were replacements for
shortcomings with respect to face-2-face emotions. I am not sure if these
measures suffice to make inferences from text in weblogs or online news
sites? Does anyone know of measuring tools in online text communication
that would make sense in light of this study?
Kind Regards
Gerd Stodiek
ISNM International School of New Media
University of Lübeck
Gerd Stodiek
M.Sc. Digital Media Program
http://www.isnm.de
Willy-Brandt-Allee 31a
23554 Lübeck, Germany
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