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...
Saved in:
Main Author: | |
---|---|
Other Authors: | |
Format: | Thesis-Master by Research |
Language: | English |
Published: |
Nanyang Technological University
2020
|
Subjects: | |
Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/137027 |
Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
Institution: | Nanyang Technological University |
Language: | English |
id |
sg-ntu-dr.10356-137027 |
---|---|
record_format |
dspace |
spelling |
sg-ntu-dr.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 |
institution |
Nanyang Technological University |
building |
NTU Library |
continent |
Asia |
country |
Singapore Singapore |
content_provider |
NTU Library |
collection |
DR-NTU |
language |
English |
topic |
Social sciences::Psychology |
spellingShingle |
Social sciences::Psychology Kang, Bianca Ni Ying A quantitative exploration of repeated advice-seeking on Reddit's r/relationships |
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. |
author2 |
Ho Moon-Ho Ringo |
author_facet |
Ho Moon-Ho Ringo Kang, Bianca Ni Ying |
format |
Thesis-Master by Research |
author |
Kang, Bianca Ni Ying |
author_sort |
Kang, Bianca Ni Ying |
title |
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_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_sort |
quantitative exploration of repeated advice-seeking on reddit's r/relationships |
publisher |
Nanyang Technological University |
publishDate |
2020 |
url |
https://hdl.handle.net/10356/137027 |
_version_ |
1683493553484857344 |