TY - GEN
T1 - Does negative news travel fast? Exploring the effect of news sentiment on interactive spiral
AU - Gu, Jie
AU - Tian, Jing
AU - Wang, Xiaolun
AU - Ling, Hong
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the China Ministry of Education-China Mobile research grant (#MCM20150402).
Publisher Copyright:
© Springer International Publishing AG 2017.
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - The interactive essence of Web2.0 impacts news industry: users are extensively engaged in content creation and value contribution, yet a growing concern is that users’ interaction may amplify the negativity bias, resulting in a worrying media environment such that negative news drive out positive news. Focusing on interactive spiral of online news, this study examined the relationship between title sentiment and users’ different-stage reactions, including reading, commenting, like/dislike voting and forwarding. Against the traditional view that “negative news travels fast”, this study harvests opposite influence of title sentiment in different stages: although attracting users to read, title negativity decreased both the number of forwards and forwarding ratio.
AB - The interactive essence of Web2.0 impacts news industry: users are extensively engaged in content creation and value contribution, yet a growing concern is that users’ interaction may amplify the negativity bias, resulting in a worrying media environment such that negative news drive out positive news. Focusing on interactive spiral of online news, this study examined the relationship between title sentiment and users’ different-stage reactions, including reading, commenting, like/dislike voting and forwarding. Against the traditional view that “negative news travels fast”, this study harvests opposite influence of title sentiment in different stages: although attracting users to read, title negativity decreased both the number of forwards and forwarding ratio.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-58750-9_60
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-58750-9_60
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85024499178
SN - 9783319587493
T3 - Communications in Computer and Information Science
SP - 435
EP - 442
BT - HCI International 2017 - Posters Extended Abstracts - 19th International Conference, HCI International 2017, Proceedings
A2 - Stephanidis, Constantine
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 19th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCI International 2017
Y2 - 9 July 2017 through 14 July 2017
ER -