Tweeting negative emotion: An investigation of twitter data in the aftermath of violence on college campuses

Psychological Methods

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 526-541

  Jones, Nickolas M ^a   Wojcik, Sean P ^b   Sweeting, Josiah ^a   Silver, Roxane Cohen ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Upworthy   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Collective trauma; Isla vista massacre; LIWC; School shootings; Social media; Twitter

Indexed keywords

EMOTION; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNET; SOCIAL MEDIA; VIOLENCE;

DATASETS AS TOPIC; EMOTIONS; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERNET; SOCIAL MEDIA; VIOLENCE;

EID: 85004010333     PISSN: 1082989X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/met0000099     Document Type: Article

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