Emotions in Wikipedia

The role of intended negative events in the expression of sadness and anger in online peer production

verfasst von: Hannah Greving, Joachim Kimmerle, Aileen Oeberst, Ulrike Cress
Abstract: The online encyclopaedia Wikipedia has strict guidelines for ensuring the objectivity of its content and unbiased language of its articles. Wikipedia also provides articles on negative events such as disasters. Depending on the event, the Wikipedia community may express certain emotions when writing Wikipedia articles on those events. So far, it is unclear which psychological mechanisms are reflected in the potential emotional expressions. Based on appraisal theories of specific emotions and on previous research on intentional harm, we investigated whether intentional negative events such as terrorist attacks elicited different emotional expressions than unintentional negative events, such as natural or man-made disasters. We analysed N = 330 Wikipedia articles with automatic linguistic text analyses and found that Wikipedia articles on man-made attacks (e.g. terrorist attacks, shooting rampages) contained more anger-related content than Wikipedia articles on man-made disasters (e.g. ship accidents, train accidents) and natural disasters (e.g. hurricanes, flooding); F (2, 327) = 127.78, p
Externe Organisation(en): Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien (IWM)
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Typ: Artikel
Journal: Behaviour & Information Technology
Band: 38
Seiten: 796-806
Anzahl der Seiten: 11
Publikationsdatum: 2019
Publikationsstatus: Veröffentlicht
Peer-reviewed: Ja
ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete: Sozialwissenschaften (insg.), Pädagogische und Entwicklungspsychologie, Geisteswissenschaftliche Fächer (sonstige), Mensch-Maschine-Interaktion
Ziele für nachhaltige Entwicklung: SDG 16 – Frieden, Gerechtigkeit und starke Institutionen
Elektronische Version(en): https://doi.org/10.1080/0144929x.2018.1554702 (Zugang: Geschlossen)

BibTeX

@article{9f2514f74db24b9993a65322dd2a85a6,
title = "Emotions in Wikipedia: The role of intended negative events in the expression of sadness and anger in online peer production",
abstract = "The online encyclopaedia Wikipedia has strict guidelines for ensuring the objectivity of its content and unbiased language of its articles. Wikipedia also provides articles on negative events such as disasters. Depending on the event, the Wikipedia community may express certain emotions when writing Wikipedia articles on those events. So far, it is unclear which psychological mechanisms are reflected in the potential emotional expressions. Based on appraisal theories of specific emotions and on previous research on intentional harm, we investigated whether intentional negative events such as terrorist attacks elicited different emotional expressions than unintentional negative events, such as natural or man-made disasters. We analysed N = 330 Wikipedia articles with automatic linguistic text analyses and found that Wikipedia articles on man-made attacks (e.g. terrorist attacks, shooting rampages) contained more anger-related content than Wikipedia articles on man-made disasters (e.g. ship accidents, train accidents) and natural disasters (e.g. hurricanes, flooding); F (2, 327) = 127.78, p ",
keywords = "anger, disasters, emotions, man-made attacks, sadness, Wikipedia",
author = "Hannah Greving and Joachim Kimmerle and Aileen Oeberst and Ulrike Cress",
note = "Funding Information: The authors are very grateful to Laura Hertner and Anne Kon-rad for their help with data assessment and documentation.",
year = "2019",
doi = "10.1080/0144929x.2018.1554702",
language = "English",
volume = "38",
pages = "796--806",
journal = "Behaviour & Information Technology",
issn = "1362-3001",
publisher = "Taylor and Francis Ltd.",
number = "8",
}