Abstract
Focusing on the new Super-Topics Platform (STP) of Weibo, this study examined microblog users’ responses to the support seeking of early Covid-19 patients suffering the first outbreak in China. A total of 853 patients’ support-seeking messages, along with 81,000 comments to 270 patients’ help-requests, were crawled and analyzed. Results showed that content characteristics influenced endorsing, sharing, and commenting by users. Furthermore, the study identified three types of social support present in Weibo viewers’ comments: emotional, informational, and diffusional supports. These social support types were inherently linked to the connective affordances, which are more inclusive than paralinguistic digital affordances, of microblogs.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 621-640 |
| Number of pages | 20 |
| Journal | Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media |
| Volume | 65 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2021 |
UN SDGs
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SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
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