In:
Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society, Hindawi Limited, Vol. 2021 ( 2021-9-11), p. 1-9
Abstract:
This study investigates the influences of the prosocial and antisocial tendency of Weibo users on post transmission during the COVID-19 pandemic. To overcome the deficiency of existing research on prosocial and antisocial emotions, we employ a web crawler technology to obtain post data from Weibo and identify texts with prosocial or antisocial emotions. We use SnowNLP to construct semantic dictionaries and training models. Our major findings include the following. First, through correlation analysis and negative binomial regression, we find that user posts with high intensity and prosocial emotion can trigger comments or forwarding behaviour. Second, the influence of antisocial emotion on Weibo comments, likes, and retweets are insignificant. Third, the general emotion about prosocial comments in Weibo also shows the emotion trend of prosocial comments. Overall, a major contribution of this paper is our focus on prosocial and antisocial emotions in cyberspace, providing a new perspective on emotion communication.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
1607-887X
,
1026-0226
DOI:
10.1155/2021/8462264
Language:
English
Publisher:
Hindawi Limited
Publication Date:
2021
detail.hit.zdb_id:
2033014-5
SSG:
11
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