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Emotion spreading carried by emoji in social network

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This paper focuses on the spreading characteristics of emoji in social networks, especially by constructing the S3I emotion spreading model to study the evolution laws and characteristics of positive, neutral, and negative emotions on social networks, respectively. The results show that negative emotions spread faster and wider in social networks, validating the social phenomenon that “Good news never goes beyond the gate, while bad news has wings.” Also illustrates in social communication, the emoji has a special position that cannot be described by words in some special situations. The mathematical analysis and simulations were implemented to verify the proposal model and finally compared with the real case to show that the model is effective.

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This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 62266030 and No. 61863025) and the Program for International S and T Cooperation Projects of Gansu province (No. 144WCGA166).

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    Fuzhong Nian, Xiaochen Yang & Zheming Wang

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FN helped in conceptualization, methodology and supervision. XY helped in data curation, writing-original draft preparation and software. ZW helped in investigation and software.

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Nian, F., Yang, X. & Wang, Z. Emotion spreading carried by emoji in social network. Soc. Netw. Anal. Min. 13, 147 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13278-023-01144-2

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