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)