Structural Similarities of Emotion-exchange Networks: Evidence from 18 Crisis Events

Structural Similarities of Emotion-exchange Networks: Evidence from 18 Crisis Events

Abstract

Online social networks (OSNs) play a significant role during crisis events by offering a convenient channel for information seeking, social bonding, and opinion sharing. In this context, people express their fear, panic, shock, as well as gratitude, well-wishing, and empathy as a crisis event evolves over time. Though emotional responses during crisis events have been studied both in offline and online settings, it is yet unclear which communication structures are representative for the exchange of specific types of emotions. In this paper, we report on new findings which indicate that not all negative emotions are exchanged in the same way. In particular, we used emotion-exchange motifs to compare the structure of emotion-annotated communication networks that resulted from 18 crisis events. Our findings clearly indicate that 1) exchanges of sadness on the one hand, and joy/love on the other show more structural similarity than any other pair of emotions, 2) emotion-exchange networks

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Authors
  • Kusen, Ema
  • Strembeck, Mark
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Paper in Conference Proceedings or in Workshop Proceedings (Paper)
Event Title
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Complexity, Future Information Systems and Risk
Divisions
Security and Privacy
Subjects
Computersicherheit
Angewandte Informatik
Informatik in Beziehung zu Mensch und Gesellschaft
Event Location
Online
Event Type
Conference
Event Dates
24-25 April 2021
Series Name
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Complexity, Future Information Systems and Risk: Complexis 2021
Publisher
SciTePress
Page Range
pp. 25-36
Date
April 2021
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