TY - CHAP
T1 - How [not] to caffeinate a political group
T2 - Parent post influence on conversational network structure
AU - Novak, Alison N.
AU - Koku, Emmanuel
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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Copyright 2015 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2014/5/31
Y1 - 2014/5/31
N2 - The attempted assassination of Representative Gabrielle Giffords in Arizona on January 8, 2011 spurred a surge of media reflection and criticism of the Tea Party Patriots and their violent rhetoric. The Coffee Party, created in 2010 as an oppositional force to the Tea Party, spent the days following the shooting discussing the various social, political, and moral aspects of the violence on their Facebook page. This chapter is part of an ongoing investigation of language in politically oriented online forums. Here, the 24 parent posts and following Facebook conversations are studied to investigate a connection between post sentiment and network structure. Using communication accommodation theory, Linguistic Inquiry Word Count (LIWC), and network analysis, a relationship is located between social, affective, cognitive, perceptual, and biological constructs and network measures of betweeness and core/periphery size. This chapter has implications regarding online network structures, new methods in Internet research, and online political activity research.
AB - The attempted assassination of Representative Gabrielle Giffords in Arizona on January 8, 2011 spurred a surge of media reflection and criticism of the Tea Party Patriots and their violent rhetoric. The Coffee Party, created in 2010 as an oppositional force to the Tea Party, spent the days following the shooting discussing the various social, political, and moral aspects of the violence on their Facebook page. This chapter is part of an ongoing investigation of language in politically oriented online forums. Here, the 24 parent posts and following Facebook conversations are studied to investigate a connection between post sentiment and network structure. Using communication accommodation theory, Linguistic Inquiry Word Count (LIWC), and network analysis, a relationship is located between social, affective, cognitive, perceptual, and biological constructs and network measures of betweeness and core/periphery size. This chapter has implications regarding online network structures, new methods in Internet research, and online political activity research.
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U2 - 10.4018/978-1-4666-6066-3.ch025
DO - 10.4018/978-1-4666-6066-3.ch025
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:84946006007
SN - 9781466660670
SP - 425
EP - 442
BT - Handbook of Research on Political Activism in the Information Age
PB - IGI Global
ER -