Affective Affordances: Exploring Facebook Reactions as Emotional Responses to Hyperpartisan Political News

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作者：
Sturm Wilkerson, Heloisa [1 ]
Riedl, Martin J. [2 ,3 ]
Whipple, Kelsey N. [4 ]
机构：
[1] Purdue Univ Ft Wayne, Dept Comm, Ft Wayne, IN 46805 USA
[2] Univ Texas Austin, Sch Journalism & Media, Austin, TX 78712 USA
[3] Univ Texas Austin, Digital Media Res Program, Austin, TX 78712 USA
[4] Univ Massachusetts, Journalism Dept, Amherst, MA 01003 USA
来源：
DIGITAL JOURNALISM | 2021年 / 9卷 / 08期
关键词：
Political news; theory of affective intelligence; social media; affective affordances; emotion; content analysis; Facebook Reactions; UNITED-STATES; CHALLENGES; CAMPAIGN; TWITTER; IMPACT; TWEET; POSTS; LIKES;
D O I：
10.1080/21670811.2021.1899011
中图分类号：
G2 [信息与知识传播];
学科分类号：
05 ; 0503 ;
摘要：
This research examines the key characteristics of hyperpartisan news pages on Facebook and how audiences interact with politically polarized content through the visual-emotional shorthand of Facebook Reactions. Through a quantitative content analysis of 4,236 posts shared by the most popular hyperpartisan U.S. Facebook pages before, during, and after the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election, the researchers introduce the concept of affective affordances to analyse emotional reactions elicited through Facebook Reactions in response to right- and left-leaning Facebook news posts, as well as the political topics, rhetorical devices, stylistic devices and emotionally charged content that are most likely to elicit emotional responses and inspire shares and comments from audiences in reaction to liberal and conservative content. The results are interpreted in light of the theory of affective intelligence.
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页码：1040 / 1061
页数：22
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