Paper Info
Title
Humour reactions in crisis: a proximal analysis of Chinese posts on sina weibo in reaction to the salt panic of march 2011
Abstract
This paper presents an analysis of humour use in Sina Weibo in reaction to the Chinese salt panic, which occurred as a result of the Fukushima disaster in March 2011. Basing the investigation on the humour Proximal Distancing Theory (PDT), and utilising a dataset from Sina Weibo in 2011, an examination of humour reactions is performed to identify the proximal spread of humourous Weibo posts in relation to the consequent salt panic in China. As a result of this method, we present a novel methodology for understanding humour reactions in social media, and provide recommendations on how such a method could be applied to a variety of other social media, crises, cultural and spatial settings.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1145/2567948.2579209
WWW (Companion Volume)
Keywords
Field
DocType
humour reaction,sina weibo,chinese post,novel methodology,proximal analysis,fukushima disaster,chinese salt panic,social media,humour use,humour proximal distancing theory,humourous weibo post,consequent salt panic
World Wide Web,Panic,Social media,Media studies,Computer science,Distancing,China
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
1
Authors
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Gareth Paul Beeston100.34
Manuel Leon Urrutia241.83
Caroline Halcrow311.37
Xianni Xiao451.09
Lu Liu51501170.70
Jinchuan Wang631.49
Jinho Jay Kim700.34
Kunwoo Park813614.51