Expressing emotions in blogs: The role of textual paralinguistic cues in online venting and social sharing posts
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Expressing emotions in blogs : The role of textual paralinguistic cues in online venting and social sharing posts. / Rodriguez-Hidalgo, Carmina Rodriguez-Hidalgo; Tan, Ed S.; Verlegh, Peeter.
I: Computers in Human Behavior, Bind 73, 2017, s. 638–649.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Expressing emotions in blogs
T2 - The role of textual paralinguistic cues in online venting and social sharing posts
AU - Rodriguez-Hidalgo, Carmina Rodriguez-Hidalgo
AU - Tan, Ed S.
AU - Verlegh, Peeter
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Textual paralanguage cues (TPC) have been signaled as effective emotion transmitters online. Though several studies have investigated their properties and occurrence, there remains a gap concerning their communicative impact within specific psychological processes, such as the social sharing of emotion (SSE, Rimé, 2009). This study content-analyzed Live Journal blogposts for the occurrence of TPC in three phases of online SSE: initiation, feedback and repost. We compared these to TPC on a second type of emotional expression, emotional venting. Based on Social Information processing theory (SIP, Walther, 1992), and on the Emotional Mimicry in Context (EMC, Hess & Fischer, 2013) framework, we study predictive relationships in TPC usage in our phased model of online SSE. Results showed that TPC prevailed in SSE blogposts and strongly dominated in emotional venting posts. TPC was more common in affective feedback than cognitive. Moreover, the presence of tactile affective cues (i.e., hugs, kisses) in the initiation post predicted their presence in affective feedback. Results lend support to the idea that TPC are used in socio-contextual ways in online SSE and particularly extrapolate certain FtF nonverbal behaviors, such as the provision of socio-affective touch.
AB - Textual paralanguage cues (TPC) have been signaled as effective emotion transmitters online. Though several studies have investigated their properties and occurrence, there remains a gap concerning their communicative impact within specific psychological processes, such as the social sharing of emotion (SSE, Rimé, 2009). This study content-analyzed Live Journal blogposts for the occurrence of TPC in three phases of online SSE: initiation, feedback and repost. We compared these to TPC on a second type of emotional expression, emotional venting. Based on Social Information processing theory (SIP, Walther, 1992), and on the Emotional Mimicry in Context (EMC, Hess & Fischer, 2013) framework, we study predictive relationships in TPC usage in our phased model of online SSE. Results showed that TPC prevailed in SSE blogposts and strongly dominated in emotional venting posts. TPC was more common in affective feedback than cognitive. Moreover, the presence of tactile affective cues (i.e., hugs, kisses) in the initiation post predicted their presence in affective feedback. Results lend support to the idea that TPC are used in socio-contextual ways in online SSE and particularly extrapolate certain FtF nonverbal behaviors, such as the provision of socio-affective touch.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - Nonverbal communication
KW - Paralinguistic cues
KW - Social sharing of emotion
KW - Emotional mimicry
KW - Venting
KW - Social networking sites
U2 - 10.1016/j.chb.2017.04.007
DO - 10.1016/j.chb.2017.04.007
M3 - Journal article
VL - 73
SP - 638
EP - 649
JO - Computers in Human Behavior
JF - Computers in Human Behavior
SN - 0747-5632
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ID: 178212575