When bloggers attack: Examining the effect of negative citizen-initiated campaigning in 2008 presidential election

Timothy Fung; Emily Vraga; Kjerstin Thorson; Hans Meyer

When bloggers attack: Examining the effect of negative citizen-initiated campaigning in 2008 presidential election

Timothy Fung
, Emily Vraga
, Kjerstin Thorson
, Hans Meyer

Department of Interactive Media

Research output: Contribution to conference › Conference paper › peer-review

Abstract

Building on the social emotion model (Smith, 1999), we examined the effect of social identification on emotional reactions and behavioral tendencies of individuals exposed to citizen-initiated attack in the blogosphere during the 2008 presidential election. The findings revealed that emotional responses and associated action tendencies are conditioned based on which candidate support groups individuals belong to when they were exposed to partisan, attacking blog commentaries.

Original language	English
Publication status	Published - Aug 2009
Event	92nd Annual Conference of Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, AEJMC 2009 - Sheraton Boston, Boston, United States Duration: 5 Aug 2009 → 8 Aug 2009

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Conference	92nd Annual Conference of Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, AEJMC 2009
Country/Territory	United States
City	Boston
Period	5/08/09 → 8/08/09

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When bloggers attack: Examining the effect of negative citizen-initiated campaigning in 2008 presidential election. / Fung, Timothy; Vraga, Emily; Thorson, Kjerstin et al.
2009. Paper presented at 92nd Annual Conference of Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, AEJMC 2009, Boston, United States.

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