[Air-l] Emotional Content in Weblogs and News Sites Online
Kylie Veale
kylie at veale.com.au
Sun May 16 00:10:39 PDT 2004
Gerd,
If you haven't already, you may want to look at a publication by Brenda
Danet, who discusses the use of emoticons and other visual 'slang' as online
communicative expressions.
Danet, B. (2001). Cyberpl at y: Communicating Online. Berg Pub Ltd.
Regards
Kylie
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GradDipInvEnv, MInetStds(Design)
PhD student (Internet Studies)
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From: air-l-admin at aoir.org [mailto:air-l-admin at aoir.org] On Behalf Of Gerd
Stodiek
Sent: Saturday, 15 May 2004 8:19 PM
To: air-l at aoir.org
Subject: [Air-l] Emotional Content in Weblogs and News Sites Online
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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