To Tweet or not to tweet? A study by Jie Xu & Liv Yiye Wu
Ich stelle eine Studie vor, die die SCCT in Twitterkommunikation untersucht. Die Folien sind aus einem meiner Vorträge, in Englisch:
The Impact of Expressing Sympathy Through
Twitter in Crisis Management -
The study employed a 2 (medium: Twitter vs.
news release) × 2 (emotional support: Yes vs. No) between-subject experimental
design. Two hundred and forty-five participants who had
registered on Twitter and used coffeemakers before were included in further
data analyses. Soziodemographics….
Fictional situation: The crisis was about one
of Brewmaster’s coffeemakers that exploded while the consumer was preparing his
morning coffee, in Kansas City August 2012. the customer needed medical care at
a local medical center. The cause of the technical malfunction and resulting
explosion went under investigation; Brewmaster deployed a crisis response team
to assist local investigators in identifying the cause of this incident.
When a crisis is unfolding, an organization
will receive more or less positive after-crisis perceptions, if …
.. using Twitter or using traditional news
releases
.. showing (no) emotional support in their
crisis response messages
How do those two factors interact?
They conducted statistical tests and two-way
analyses of variance and Chi-quare
tests, checked correlations and multivariate analysis of covariance (MANCOVA); Control and dependent measures included:
product involvement, emotional responses, perceived crisis responsibility, and
organizational reputation and purchase intention.
The results of this study show that compassion
messaging in accidental crisis events mitigates stakeholders’ sadness and
anger, decreases the attribution to the organization to bear the
responsibility, and better protects organizational reputation. Moreover, Twitter, as an interactive social
media platform, represents a better platform to implement emotional support
strategies compared to traditional news releases.