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

[Gerd Stodiek]

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
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