Gossip at one’s fingertips: Predictors of celebrity news on Twitter

Yan, Yan; Zhang, Wanjiang Jacob

doi:10.1177/1464884918791349

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“…With 3.3 billion active users around the globe, Twitter is one of the most important online portals for social networking. Many users with similar interests or experiences have joined together to create spaces in Twitter groups for exchanges of information and emotions (Damayanti, 2020;Yan and Zhang, 2020).…”

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Triple grief cycle of cancelled events: the emotional crisis aftermath

Wong

Lin

et al. 2021

IJCHM

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Purpose The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic response is not only devastating nations and economies across the globe but it is also severely disrupting the event industry, with government and health authorities forcing many events to be postponed or cancelled. The purpose of this study is to investigate the prospective attendees’ emotional responses to cancelled events. This study draws upon grief cycle theory to articulate different layers of the grief process in the event domain of inquiry. Design/methodology/approach The National Collegiate Athletic Association basketball tournament was selected as the research context. Taking user-generated messages from Twitter, this study first performed content analysis to organize lexical patterns into categories and higher-order themes based on the grief cycle. It also performed social network analyses using UCINET to illustrate how different grief phases are inter-related. Findings Results not only point to attendees’ self-expression manifested through a continuum of denial, anger, bargaining and acceptance but they also reveal a three-layer hierarchy of grief, namely, event-related, socio-politics-related and crisis-related. The network analysis further illustrates how grief phases are tied into a complex network of grief messages. Originality/value This study advances the event literature by improving knowledge about attendees’ emotional responses to cancelled events. It increases our understanding of the grieving process in the aftermath of COVID-19. The proposed triple grief cycle helps advance the literature by showcasing how voices from prospective attendees represent three pillars of grief hierarchy. The findings also underscore the emotional crisis of the COVID-19 aftermath.

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Section: Data Sourcesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Triple grief cycle of cancelled events: the emotional crisis aftermath

Wong

Lin

et al. 2021

IJCHM

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“…The celebrity couple was chosen as a specific source of interest because of their high number of social media followers (over 340 million) with nearly 30% of these being aged 14–20 years, thus reaching an estimated 102 million people in the age group of interest. Research also suggests that although news coverage is primarily determined by news features, audiences appear to hold more heightened interest in well-known celebrities (Yan and Zhang, 2018). Hence, this combination of high numbers of social media followers combined with celebrity status was deemed as a more likely relevant source of information for young people reading social media posts.…”

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“Influencers” – a study investigating the messages people receive about coercive control on social media

Haase

Worthington

2023

JFP

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Purpose Coercive control (which is a form of intimate partner violence [IPV]) is a significant public health concern affecting millions of people throughout the world. Whilst exposure to IPV in childhood and adolescence has been shown to contribute to the intergenerational transmission of IPV, this alone does not explain IPV. A range of bio-psycho-social factors contribute to IPV which includes exposure to peer influence on social media platforms, whereby research has shown this online expression of views and opinions can change off-line behaviour. This has extended to not only purchasing products but also influencing attitudes in relation to illegal behaviour such as sexual harassment and sexual assault. The purpose of this study was to explore what young people are being exposed to online, through social media, surrounding coercive controlling behaviour. Design/methodology/approach According to Fazel et al. (2021), real-time social media data can provide important information about trends in public attitudes and attitudes towards events in the news. This study used data from Twitter to explore what adolescents are being exposed to online surrounding coercive and controlling behaviour. The data was subsequently analysed using reflexive thematic analysis. Findings Three overarching themes were found in relation to coercive control: the Educator; Gaslighter; and the Comedian. Two of these were forms of secondary victimisation. Practical implications Social media provides a powerful platform through which people’s attitudes and behaviours may be influenced both positively and negatively in relation to socio-political issues (Lozano-Blasco et al., 2022). The implications of the findings in this study are discussed with recommendations for how social media platforms could be supported to act prevent them from being used as a tool to facilitate the distribution of hate speech in relation to IPV and instead be used as a platform for psycho-education. Originality/value Previous research in this field has tended to focus on the impact of IPV and the prevalence rates of IPV in young people, but not on the different types of information young people may be exposed to surrounding relationships on social media platforms.

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“…Here we investigate whether lonely individuals demonstrate neural idiosyncrasy relative to the zeitgeist, i.e., widely shared perceptions of contemporary culture, including prominent celebrities who are fixtures of modern popular culture. Filling this gap is important because contemporary cultural knowledge is frequently referenced spontaneously in social life to facilitate social connection 8 – 10 . For example, celebrities that generate common ground are disproportionately discussed in conversations between strangers 11 .…”

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Loneliness corresponds with neural representations and language use that deviate from shared cultural perceptions

Broom,

Iyer,

Courtney

et al. 2024

Commun Psychol

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The word zeitgeist refers to common perceptions shared in a given culture. Meanwhile, a defining feature of loneliness is feeling that one’s views are not shared with others. Does loneliness correspond with deviating from the zeitgeist? Across two independent brain imaging datasets, lonely participants’ neural representations of well-known celebrities strayed from group-consensus neural representations in the medial prefrontal cortex—a region that encodes and retrieves social knowledge (Studies 1 A/1B: N = 40 each). Because communication fosters social connection by creating shared reality, we next asked whether lonelier participants’ communication about well-known celebrities also deviates from the zeitgeist. Indeed, when a strong group consensus exists, lonelier individuals use idiosyncratic language to describe well-known celebrities (Study 2: N = 923). Collectively, results support lonely individuals’ feeling that their views are not shared. This suggests loneliness may not only reflect impoverished relationships with specific individuals, but also feelings of disconnection from prevalently shared views of contemporary culture.

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Gossip at one’s fingertips: Predictors of celebrity news on Twitter

Cited by 8 publications

References 38 publications

Triple grief cycle of cancelled events: the emotional crisis aftermath

Triple grief cycle of cancelled events: the emotional crisis aftermath

“Influencers” – a study investigating the messages people receive about coercive control on social media

Loneliness corresponds with neural representations and language use that deviate from shared cultural perceptions

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