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 L�beck
Gerd Stodiek M.Sc. Digital Media Program
http://www.isnm.de Willy-Brandt-Allee 31a 23554 L�beck, Germany
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