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Iosub, Daniela, Laniado, David ORCID: 0000-0003-4574-0881, Castillo, Carlos ORCID: 0000-0002-1218-0454, Morell, Mayo Fuster and Kaltenbrunner, Andreas ORCID: 0000-0002-2271-3066 (2014). Emotions under Discussion: Gender, Status and Communication in Online Collaboration. PLoS One, 9 (8). SAN FRANCISCO: PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE. ISSN 1932-6203

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Abstract

Background: Despite the undisputed role of emotions in teamwork, not much is known about the make-up of emotions in online collaboration. Publicly available repositories of collaboration data, such as Wikipedia editor discussions, now enable the large-scale study of affect and dialogue in peer production. Methods: We investigate the established Wikipedia community and focus on how emotion and dialogue differ depending on the status, gender, and the communication network of the approximate to 12,000 editors who have written at least 100 comments on the English Wikipedia's article talk pages. Emotions are quantified using a word-based approach comparing the results of two predefined lexicon-based methods: LIWC and SentiStrength. Principal Findings: We find that administrators maintain a rather neutral, impersonal tone, while regular editors are more emotional and relationship-oriented, that is, they use language to form and maintain connections to other editors. A persistent gender difference is that female contributors communicate in a manner that promotes social affiliation and emotional connection more than male editors, irrespective of their status in the community. Female regular editors are the most relationship-oriented, whereas male administrators are the least relationship-focused. Finally, emotional and linguistic homophily is prevalent: editors tend to interact with other editors having similar emotional styles (e. g., editors expressing more anger connect more with one another). Conclusions/Significance: Emotional expression and linguistic style in online collaboration differ substantially depending on the contributors' gender and status, and on the communication network. This should be taken into account when analyzing collaborative success, and may prove insightful to communities facing gender gap and stagnation in contributor acquisition and participation levels.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Iosub, Daniela UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Laniado, David UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0003-4574-0881 UNSPECIFIED Castillo, Carlos UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-1218-0454 UNSPECIFIED Morell, Mayo Fuster UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Kaltenbrunner, Andreas UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-2271-3066 UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-431903
DOI:	10.1371/journal.pone.0104880
Journal or Publication Title:	PLoS One
Volume:	9
Number:	8
Date:	2014
Publisher:	PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
Place of Publication:	SAN FRANCISCO
ISSN:	1932-6203
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language LANGUAGE USE; SPEECH Multiple languages Multidisciplinary Sciences Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/43190