[Air-l] Emotional Content in Weblogs and News Sites Online

Lois Ann Scheidt lscheidt at indiana.edu
Sat May 15 10:57:26 PDT 2004


Rice, Ronald E. and Gail Love. "Electronic emotion:  Socioemotional
content in a computer-mediated communication network." Communication
Research 14.1 (1987): 85-108.

On Sat, 15 May 2004, Nancy Baym wrote:

> There is an OLD (for internet studies) classic 
> article circa 1986 by Rice and Love that looked 
> at "electronic emotion" in online fora. I'm sorry 
> I don't have the citation handy, but I suspect 
> someone on this list does. Nancy
> 
> >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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