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| title = Public Anxiety and Information Seeking Following the H1N1 Outbreak: Blogs, Newspaper Articles, and Wikipedia Visits
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| date = 2012
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| authors = [[Yla R. Tausczik]]<br />[[Kate Faasse]]<br />[[James W. Pennebaker]]<br />[[Keith J. Petrie]]
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| doi = 10.1080/10410236.2011.571759
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'''Public Anxiety and Information Seeking Following the H1N1 Outbreak: Blogs, Newspaper Articles, and Wikipedia Visits''' - scientific work related to [[Wikipedia quality]] published in 2012, written by [[Yla R. Tausczik]], [[Kate Faasse]], [[James W. Pennebaker]] and [[Keith J. Petrie]].
 
'''Public Anxiety and Information Seeking Following the H1N1 Outbreak: Blogs, Newspaper Articles, and Wikipedia Visits''' - scientific work related to [[Wikipedia quality]] published in 2012, written by [[Yla R. Tausczik]], [[Kate Faasse]], [[James W. Pennebaker]] and [[Keith J. Petrie]].
  
 
== Overview ==
 
== Overview ==
 
Web-based methodologies may provide a new and unique insight into public response to an infectious disease outbreak. This naturalistic study investigates the effectiveness of new web-based methodologies in assessing anxiety and information seeking in response to the 2009 H1N1 outbreak by examining language use in weblogs (“blogs”), newspaper articles, and web-based information seeking. Language use in blogs and newspaper articles was assessed using Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count, and information seeking was examined using the number of daily visits to H1N1-relevant [[Wikipedia]] articles. The results show that blogs mentioning “swine flu” used significantly higher levels of anxiety, health, and death words and lower levels of positive emotion words than control blogs. Change in language use on blogs was strongly related to change in language use in newspaper coverage for the same day. Both the measure of anxiety in blogs mentioning ”swine flu” and the number of Wikipedia visits followed similar trajectorie...
 
Web-based methodologies may provide a new and unique insight into public response to an infectious disease outbreak. This naturalistic study investigates the effectiveness of new web-based methodologies in assessing anxiety and information seeking in response to the 2009 H1N1 outbreak by examining language use in weblogs (“blogs”), newspaper articles, and web-based information seeking. Language use in blogs and newspaper articles was assessed using Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count, and information seeking was examined using the number of daily visits to H1N1-relevant [[Wikipedia]] articles. The results show that blogs mentioning “swine flu” used significantly higher levels of anxiety, health, and death words and lower levels of positive emotion words than control blogs. Change in language use on blogs was strongly related to change in language use in newspaper coverage for the same day. Both the measure of anxiety in blogs mentioning ”swine flu” and the number of Wikipedia visits followed similar trajectorie...

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Public Anxiety and Information Seeking Following the H1N1 Outbreak: Blogs, Newspaper Articles, and Wikipedia Visits
Authors
Yla R. Tausczik
Kate Faasse
James W. Pennebaker
Keith J. Petrie
Publication date
2012
DOI
10.1080/10410236.2011.571759
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Public Anxiety and Information Seeking Following the H1N1 Outbreak: Blogs, Newspaper Articles, and Wikipedia Visits - scientific work related to Wikipedia quality published in 2012, written by Yla R. Tausczik, Kate Faasse, James W. Pennebaker and Keith J. Petrie.

Overview

Web-based methodologies may provide a new and unique insight into public response to an infectious disease outbreak. This naturalistic study investigates the effectiveness of new web-based methodologies in assessing anxiety and information seeking in response to the 2009 H1N1 outbreak by examining language use in weblogs (“blogs”), newspaper articles, and web-based information seeking. Language use in blogs and newspaper articles was assessed using Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count, and information seeking was examined using the number of daily visits to H1N1-relevant Wikipedia articles. The results show that blogs mentioning “swine flu” used significantly higher levels of anxiety, health, and death words and lower levels of positive emotion words than control blogs. Change in language use on blogs was strongly related to change in language use in newspaper coverage for the same day. Both the measure of anxiety in blogs mentioning ”swine flu” and the number of Wikipedia visits followed similar trajectorie...