Analysis on Users’ Emotions Through Comments on Weibo Based on Integrated Crisis Model

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.211025.029How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Social media, Emotions, China, Crisis communications, Weibo

Abstract

China and the Indian military force got an encounter on Galwan Valley border in mid-June 2020. Global Times, as a traditional press media platform but has finished online transformation successfully, posted an editorial through its Weibo account, “India retreats from deals with China: Global Times editorial” [1]. Weibo users were then activated on to the discussion to this event and left comments to this Weibo post to share their feelings and opinions. These comments, after being examined, were found deeply involved with emotions expressed via Weibo. It would be worthy to analyse this phenomenon as a glance of the agenda about emotions on social media. The paper focused on the emotional layer of comments to this post by social media users and tried to analyse what types of emotions may be expressed online by them in a crisis. Whether the social media exert an influence on users’ emotions? The author took content analysis and qualitative research method as the way for conducting this study. Besides, the integrated crisis model and its revised version were used as the basis of sample processing [2] [3]. Each comment to the editorial on Weibo was collected, examined, and categorized based on what emotion is expressed. It can be concluded that Weibo users expressed anxiety, anger, happiness, fear and sadness during this crisis, and the editorial increased their emotional intensity.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Haolong Yu
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/10/26
TI  - Analysis on Users’ Emotions Through Comments on Weibo Based on Integrated Crisis Model
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Language, Communication and Culture Studies (ICLCCS 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 171
EP  - 176
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211025.029
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.211025.029
ID  - Yu2021
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