A quantitative exploration of repeated advice-seeking on Reddit's r/relationships
Online spaces for users seeking advice for personal issues have existed since the introduction of the Internet to the public in the 1990s. Today, online advice-seeking is a commonplace activity. However, understanding of this phenomenon is still limited. Much research on advice has focused on the ev...
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| author | Kang, Bianca Ni Ying |
| author2 | Ho Moon-Ho Ringo |
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| description | Online spaces for users seeking advice for personal issues have existed since the introduction of the Internet to the public in the 1990s. Today, online advice-seeking is a commonplace activity. However, understanding of this phenomenon is still limited. Much research on advice has focused on the evaluation and outcomes of advice, and on offline exchanges between non-stranger individuals. The current study was thus an exploratory step focused on identifying the factors related to repeated online advice-seeking behaviour. Specifically, the current study examined how (1) user-level differences and (2) differences in forum community reception may be associated with a user deciding to seek advice again on the same advice forum. One years’ worth of postings from a popular relational advice forum (Reddit’s r/relationships) and the posting activity of its users were analysed with the help of computational methods. Results indicated that certain user-level cues were predictive of repeat advice-seeking behaviour. Further analyses highlighted the importance of accounting for gender even when examining behaviour in a pseudonymous faceless environment. Practical implications and future directions were proposed and discussed. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/1370272020-10-28T08:29:22Z A quantitative exploration of repeated advice-seeking on Reddit's r/relationships Kang, Bianca Ni Ying Ho Moon-Ho Ringo School of Social Sciences homh@ntu.edu.sg Social sciences::Psychology Online spaces for users seeking advice for personal issues have existed since the introduction of the Internet to the public in the 1990s. Today, online advice-seeking is a commonplace activity. However, understanding of this phenomenon is still limited. Much research on advice has focused on the evaluation and outcomes of advice, and on offline exchanges between non-stranger individuals. The current study was thus an exploratory step focused on identifying the factors related to repeated online advice-seeking behaviour. Specifically, the current study examined how (1) user-level differences and (2) differences in forum community reception may be associated with a user deciding to seek advice again on the same advice forum. One years’ worth of postings from a popular relational advice forum (Reddit’s r/relationships) and the posting activity of its users were analysed with the help of computational methods. Results indicated that certain user-level cues were predictive of repeat advice-seeking behaviour. Further analyses highlighted the importance of accounting for gender even when examining behaviour in a pseudonymous faceless environment. Practical implications and future directions were proposed and discussed. Master of Arts 2020-02-13T04:57:37Z 2020-02-13T04:57:37Z 2019 Thesis-Master by Research Kang, B. N. Y. (2019). A quantitative exploration of repeated advice-seeking on Reddit's r/relationships. Master's thesis, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. https://hdl.handle.net/10356/137027 10.32657/10356/137027 en This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0). application/pdf Nanyang Technological University |
| spellingShingle | Social sciences::Psychology Kang, Bianca Ni Ying A quantitative exploration of repeated advice-seeking on Reddit's r/relationships |
| title | A quantitative exploration of repeated advice-seeking on Reddit's r/relationships |
| title_full | A quantitative exploration of repeated advice-seeking on Reddit's r/relationships |
| title_fullStr | A quantitative exploration of repeated advice-seeking on Reddit's r/relationships |
| title_full_unstemmed | A quantitative exploration of repeated advice-seeking on Reddit's r/relationships |
| title_short | A quantitative exploration of repeated advice-seeking on Reddit's r/relationships |
| title_sort | quantitative exploration of repeated advice seeking on reddit s r relationships |
| topic | Social sciences::Psychology |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/137027 |
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