Impact and Diffusion of Sentiment in Political Communication - An Empirical Analysis of Political Weblogs
Zusammenfassung
In this paper, we examine whether sentiment of political blog entries is associated with increased feedback in terms of the quantity of triggered comments and whether the diffusion of sentiment might take place in the political blogosphere. Based on a data set of approximately 17,000 blog entries from the 60 most important German political blogs, we find that blog entries with either more positive or more negative overall sentiment tend to receive significantly more comments compared to sentiment-neutral or mixed-sentiment entries. Furthermore, our results show that positive as well as negative emotions might diffuse in the subsequent comments to corresponding blog entries.
Schlüsselwörter
Social media; Blogs; Sentiment
Zitieren als
Dang-Xuan, L., & Stieglitz, S. (2012). Impact and Diffusion of Sentiment in Political Communication — An Empirical Analysis of Political Weblogs. In Proceedings of the 6th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM), Dublin, Ireland, 427–430.Details
Publikationstyp
Forschungsartikel in Sammelband (Konferenz)
Begutachtet
Ja
Publikationsstatus
Veröffentlicht
Jahr
2012
Konferenz
6th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM)
Konferenzort
Dublin, Ireland
Erste Seite
427
Letzte Seite
430
Sprache
Englisch