Open AccessDeveloping a Theoretical Framework for Processing the Negative Information in Social Media
Author(s) -
Jinwook Lee
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
politikon
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1583-3984
pISSN - 2414-6633
DOI - 10.22151/politikon.51.3
Subject(s) - social media , anger , agency (philosophy) , social information processing , information processing , psychology , process (computing) , politics , social psychology , negative information , the internet , computer science , cognitive psychology , sociology , political science , cognition , world wide web , social science , neuroscience , law , operating system
The author explores the fundamental aspects of the rational decision-making process with the aim of understanding that negative information has the possibility to distort processing of political information. This article further develops a theoretical framework of the relationship between negative information on social media and its receiver. This article conducts an empirical analysis to partially prove this framework with the Twitter texts spread by the Internet Research Agency (IRA). This analysis indicates that: (1) tweets containing negative information had more interaction than tweets containing positive information; (2) tweets containing anger-inducing content had more interaction than tweets containing fearful content. These results suggest that negative emotion would have a more significant effect on this process, and different negative emotions can have a distinct effect on information processing.