How Dramatic Events Can Affect Emotionality in Social Posting: The Impact of COVID-19 on Reddit

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=kP01Ro5FgB" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=kP01Ro5FgB</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/fi13020029" target="_blank" >10.3390/fi13020029</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

How Dramatic Events Can Affect Emotionality in Social Posting: The Impact of COVID-19 on Reddit

Original language description

The COVID-19 outbreak impacted almost all the aspects of ordinary life. In this context, social networks quickly started playing the role of a sounding board for the content produced by people. Studying how dramatic events affect the way people interact with each other and react to poorly known situations is recognized as a relevant research task. Since automatically identifying country-based COVID-19 social posts on generalized social networks, like Twitter and Facebook, is a difficult task, in this work we concentrate on Reddit megathreads, which provide a unique opportunity to study focused reactions of people by both topic and country. We analyze specific reactions and we compare them with a &quot;normal&quot; period, not affected by the pandemic; in particular, we consider structural variations in social posting behavior, emotional reactions under the Plutchik model of basic emotions, and emotional reactions under unconventional emotions, such as skepticism, particularly relevant in the COVID-19 context.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50404 - Anthropology, ethnology

Project

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Continuities

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Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Future Internet [online]

ISSN

1999-5903

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

13

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

32

Pages from-to

29

UT code for WoS article

000622581100001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85100419483