This is a new paper, published a couple of weeks ago. (Sorry if it's been mentioned before, I couldn't see a related thread.)
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0104880
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).
Thanks Andreas. Forwarding to Research.
Pine On Sep 1, 2014 4:09 PM, "Andreas Kolbe" jayen466@gmail.com wrote:
This is a new paper, published a couple of weeks ago. (Sorry if it's been mentioned before, I couldn't see a related thread.)
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0104880
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).
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