{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2026,4,14]],"date-time":"2026-04-14T01:01:38Z","timestamp":1776128498320,"version":"3.50.1"},"reference-count":54,"publisher":"Emerald","issue":"4","license":[{"start":{"date-parts":[[2019,8,14]],"date-time":"2019-08-14T00:00:00Z","timestamp":1565740800000},"content-version":"tdm","delay-in-days":0,"URL":"https:\/\/www.emerald.com\/insight\/site-policies"}],"content-domain":{"domain":[],"crossmark-restriction":false},"short-container-title":["EL"],"published-print":{"date-parts":[[2019,9,6]]},"abstract":"<jats:sec>\n<jats:title content-type=\"abstract-subheading\">Purpose<\/jats:title>\n<jats:p>This study aims to explore the repost features of microblogs acting to promote the information diffusion of government-generated content on social media.<\/jats:p>\n<\/jats:sec>\n<jats:sec>\n<jats:title content-type=\"abstract-subheading\">Design\/methodology\/approach<\/jats:title>\n<jats:p>This study proposes a topic\u2212sentiment analysis using a mixed social media analytics framework to analyse the microblogs collected from the Sina Weibo accounts of 30 Chinese provincial police departments. On the basis of this analysis, this study presents the distribution of reposted microblogs and reveals the reposting characteristics of police-generated microblogs (PGMs).<\/jats:p>\n<\/jats:sec>\n<jats:sec>\n<jats:title content-type=\"abstract-subheading\">Findings<\/jats:title>\n<jats:p>The experimental results indicate that children\u2019s safety and crime-related PGMs with a positive sentiment can achieve a high level of online information diffusion.<\/jats:p>\n<\/jats:sec>\n<jats:sec>\n<jats:title content-type=\"abstract-subheading\">Originality\/value<\/jats:title>\n<jats:p>This study is novel, as it reveals the reposting features of PGMs from both a topic and sentiment perspectives, and provides new findings that can inspire users\u2019 reposting behaviour.<\/jats:p>\n<\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1108\/el-02-2019-0044","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,8,14]],"date-time":"2019-08-14T10:20:14Z","timestamp":1565778014000},"page":"607-623","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":19,"title":["Exploring repost features of police-generated microblogs through topic and sentiment analysis"],"prefix":"10.1108","volume":"37","author":[{"given":"XiaoBo","family":"Tang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Shixuan","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Na","family":"Gu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"MingLiang","family":"Tan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]}],"member":"140","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,8,14]]},"reference":[{"key":"key2021102914341925000_ref001","first-page":"993","article-title":"Latent dirichlet allocation","volume":"3","year":"2003","journal-title":"The Journal of Machine Learning Research"},{"issue":"1","key":"key2021102914341925000_ref002","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"52","DOI":"10.1016\/j.giq.2014.11.001","article-title":"Citizens\u2019 engagement on local governments\u2019 facebook sites. An empirical analysis: the impact of different media and content types in Western Europe","volume":"32","year":"2015","journal-title":"Government Information Quarterly"},{"issue":"2","key":"key2021102914341925000_ref003","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"123","DOI":"10.1016\/j.giq.2011.10.001","article-title":"Local e-government 2.0: social media and corporate transparency in municipalities","volume":"29","year":"2012","journal-title":"Government Information Quarterly"},{"issue":"4","key":"key2021102914341925000_ref004","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"377","DOI":"10.1016\/j.giq.2013.05.021","article-title":"Tsunami early warnings via twitter in government: net-savvy citizens\u2019 co-production of time-critical public information services","volume":"30","year":"2013","journal-title":"Government Information Quarterly"},{"issue":"6","key":"key2021102914341925000_ref005","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"582","DOI":"10.1108\/AJIM-11-2012-0089","article-title":"Exploring political discussions by Korean twitter users: a look at opinion leadership and homophily phenomenon","volume":"66","year":"2014","journal-title":"Aslib Journal of Information Management"},{"key":"key2021102914341925000_ref006","first-page":"123","article-title":"Understanding factors that affect response rates in twitter","year":"2012"},{"key":"key2021102914341925000_ref007","first-page":"289","article-title":"An analysis of UK policing engagement via social media","year":"2017"},{"issue":"1","key":"key2021102914341925000_ref008","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"6","DOI":"10.1186\/s40649-017-0042-6","article-title":"Stance and influence of twitter users regarding the brexit referendum","volume":"4","year":"2017","journal-title":"Computational Social Networks"},{"issue":"3","key":"key2021102914341925000_ref009","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"460","DOI":"10.1016\/j.giq.2016.06.005","article-title":"Factors influencing social media use in local governments: the case of Italy and Spain","volume":"33","year":"2016","journal-title":"Government Information Quarterly"},{"issue":"1","key":"key2021102914341925000_ref010","first-page":"38","article-title":"Twitter sentiments related to natural calamities: analysing tweets related to the Jammu And Kashmir floods of 2014","volume":"36","year":"2017","journal-title":"The Electronic Library"},{"issue":"1","key":"key2021102914341925000_ref011","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"79","DOI":"10.1108\/OIR-03-2015-0084","article-title":"How to strengthen the social media interactivity of e-government: evidence from China","volume":"40","year":"2016","journal-title":"Online Information Review"},{"key":"key2021102914341925000_ref012","first-page":"856","article-title":"Online learning for latent dirichlet allocation","volume-title":"Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 23 (NIPS \u201810)","year":"2010"},{"issue":"4","key":"key2021102914341925000_ref013","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"387","DOI":"10.1016\/j.giq.2013.05.013","article-title":"What makes local governments\u2019 online communications successful? Insights from a multi-method analysis of facebook","volume":"30","year":"2013","journal-title":"Government Information Quarterly"},{"issue":"4","key":"key2021102914341925000_ref014","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"455","DOI":"10.1016\/j.giq.2012.06.004","article-title":"Which candidates do the public discuss online in an election campaign? The use of social media by 2012 presidential candidates and its impact on candidate salience","volume":"29","year":"2012","journal-title":"Government Information Quarterly"},{"issue":"6","key":"key2021102914341925000_ref015","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"688","DOI":"10.1108\/AJIM-02-2017-0035","article-title":"Web mining for the mayoral election prediction in Taiwan","volume":"69","year":"2017","journal-title":"Aslib Journal of Information Management"},{"issue":"1","key":"key2021102914341925000_ref016","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"89","DOI":"10.1080\/21670811.2015.1093271","article-title":"Quantitative analysis of large amounts of journalistic texts using topic modelling","volume":"4","year":"2016","journal-title":"Digital Journalism"},{"issue":"192(02)","key":"key2021102914341925000_ref017","first-page":"34","article-title":"Analysis and prediction on crime in China (2017-2018)","volume":"34","year":"2018","journal-title":"Journal of People's Public Security University of China (Social Sciences Edition)"},{"issue":"1","key":"key2021102914341925000_ref018","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"56","DOI":"10.1108\/JRF-06-2017-0092","article-title":"Using sentiment analysis to predict interday bitcoin price movements","volume":"19","year":"2018","journal-title":"The Journal of Risk Finance"},{"issue":"4","key":"key2021102914341925000_ref019","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"480","DOI":"10.1016\/j.giq.2012.06.002","article-title":"Social media use by government: from the routine to the critical","volume":"29","year":"2012","journal-title":"Government Information Quarterly"},{"issue":"1","key":"key2021102914341925000_ref021","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"86","DOI":"10.1016\/j.ijinfomgt.2017.08.003","article-title":"Social network analysis: characteristics of online social networks after a disaster","volume":"38","year":"2018","journal-title":"International Journal of Information Management"},{"issue":"1","key":"key2021102914341925000_ref020","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"42","DOI":"10.1108\/OIR-03-2015-0068","article-title":"Competitive intelligence in social media twitter: iPhone 6 vs. Galaxy S5","volume":"40","year":"2016","journal-title":"Online Information Review"},{"issue":"8","key":"key2021102914341925000_ref022","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"131","DOI":"10.1109\/CC.2014.6911095","article-title":"Mining user interest in microblogs with a user-topic model","volume":"11","year":"2014","journal-title":"China Communications"},{"issue":"1","key":"key2021102914341925000_ref023","first-page":"95","article-title":"The retweeting scale classification prediction of government microblogs in China","volume":"37","year":"2018","journal-title":"Journal of Intelligence"},{"key":"key2021102914341925000_ref024","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"267","DOI":"10.1016\/j.pacfin.2018.07.007","article-title":"Tweeting the financial market: Media effect in the era of big data","volume":"51","year":"2018","journal-title":"Pacific-Basin Finance Journal"},{"issue":"4","key":"key2021102914341925000_ref025","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"416","DOI":"10.1177\/0894439315595222","article-title":"Social representations of social media use in government: an analysis of Chinese government microblogging from citizens\u2019 perspective","volume":"34","year":"2016","journal-title":"Social Science Computer Review"},{"issue":"2","key":"key2021102914341925000_ref026","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"158","DOI":"10.1108\/AJIM-08-2016-0128","article-title":"Discovery of repost patterns by topic analysis in enterprise social networking","volume":"69","year":"2017","journal-title":"Aslib Journal of Information Management"},{"key":"key2021102914341925000_ref027","first-page":"322","article-title":"Comparing summarisation techniques for informal online reviews","volume-title":"7th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (IC3K)","year":"2015"},{"issue":"4","key":"key2021102914341925000_ref028","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1093","DOI":"10.1016\/j.asej.2014.04.011","article-title":"Sentiment analysis algorithms and applications: a survey","volume":"5","year":"2014","journal-title":"Ain Shams Engineering Journal"},{"issue":"4","key":"key2021102914341925000_ref029","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"343","DOI":"10.1016\/j.giq.2013.05.023","article-title":"Social media strategies: understanding the differences between North American police departments","volume":"30","year":"2013","journal-title":"Government Information Quarterly"},{"issue":"2","key":"key2021102914341925000_ref030","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"143","DOI":"10.1177\/0275074014551381","article-title":"Social media and the new organization of government communications: an empirical analysis of twitter usage by the Dutch police","volume":"46","year":"2016","journal-title":"The American Review of Public Administration"},{"key":"key2021102914341925000_ref031","first-page":"1","article-title":"The influence of external political events on social networks: the case of the brexit twitter network","year":"2019","journal-title":"Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing"},{"issue":"4","key":"key2021102914341925000_ref032","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"426","DOI":"10.1108\/AJIM-03-2017-0064","article-title":"An analysis of the Gezi park social movement tweets","volume":"69","year":"2017","journal-title":"Aslib Journal of Information Management"},{"key":"key2021102914341925000_ref033","first-page":"910","article-title":"The 2015 canadian election on twitter: a tidy algorithmic analysis","year":"2017"},{"issue":"6","key":"key2021102914341925000_ref034","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"34","DOI":"10.5815\/ijeme.2016.06.04","article-title":"Opinion mining of online product reviews from traditional LDA topic clusters using feature ontology tree and SentiWordNet","volume":"6","year":"2016","journal-title":"International Journal of Education and Management Engineering"},{"issue":"4","key":"key2021102914341925000_ref035","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"473","DOI":"10.1016\/j.giq.2015.06.004","article-title":"Evaluating the use and impact of web 2.0 technologies in local government","volume":"32","year":"2015","journal-title":"Government Information Quarterly"},{"issue":"4","key":"key2021102914341925000_ref036","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"417","DOI":"10.1016\/j.giq.2013.05.014","article-title":"The use of twitter by mayors in Turkey: tweets for better public services?","volume":"30","year":"2013","journal-title":"Government Information Quarterly"},{"issue":"4","key":"key2021102914341925000_ref037","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"217","DOI":"10.2753\/MIS0742-1222290408","article-title":"Emotions and information diffusion in social media: Sentiment of microblogs and sharing behavior","volume":"29","year":"2013","journal-title":"Journal of Management Information Systems"},{"issue":"4","key":"key2021102914341925000_ref038","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1277","DOI":"10.1007\/s13278-012-0079-3","article-title":"Social media and political communication: a social media analytics framework","volume":"3","year":"2013","journal-title":"Social Network Analysis and Mining"},{"issue":"2","key":"key2021102914341925000_ref039","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"89","DOI":"10.1007\/s12599-014-0315-7","article-title":"Social media analytics: an interdisciplinary approach and its implications for information systems","volume":"6","year":"2014","journal-title":"Business and Information Systems Engineering"},{"key":"key2021102914341925000_ref040","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"156","DOI":"10.1016\/j.ijinfomgt.2017.12.002","article-title":"Social media analytics: Challenges in topic discovery, data collection, and data preparation","volume":"39","year":"2018","journal-title":"International Journal of Information Management"},{"issue":"4","key":"key2021102914341925000_ref041","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"369","DOI":"10.1016\/j.giq.2015.08.001","article-title":"Digital diplomacy in GCC countries: strategic communication of Western embassies on twitter","volume":"32","year":"2015","journal-title":"Government Information Quarterly"},{"key":"key2021102914341925000_ref042","first-page":"177","article-title":"Want to be retweeted? Large scale analytics on factors impacting retweet in twitter network","year":"2010"},{"issue":"2","key":"key2021102914341925000_ref043","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"267","DOI":"10.1162\/COLI_a_00049","article-title":"Lexicon-based methods for sentiment analysis","volume":"37","year":"2011","journal-title":"Computational Linguistics"},{"issue":"1","key":"key2021102914341925000_ref044","first-page":"34","article-title":"Sentiment classification for Chinese microblogging based on polarity lexicons","volume":"31","year":"2014","journal-title":"Computer Applications and Software"},{"issue":"2","key":"key2021102914341925000_ref045","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"210","DOI":"10.1016\/j.giq.2018.03.001","article-title":"Leveraging social media to achieve a community policing agenda","volume":"35","year":"2018","journal-title":"Government Information Quarterly"},{"issue":"4","key":"key2021102914341925000_ref046","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"613","DOI":"10.1016\/j.giq.2017.11.001","article-title":"Analysis of political discourse on twitter in the context of the 2016 US presidential elections","volume":"34","year":"2017","journal-title":"Government Information Quarterly"},{"issue":"1","key":"key2021102914341925000_ref047","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"123","DOI":"10.1016\/j.jom.2016.05.007","article-title":"Evaluating information diffusion speed and its determinants in social media networks during humanitarian crises","volume":"45","year":"2016","journal-title":"Journal of Operations Management"},{"key":"key2021102914341925000_ref048","first-page":"217","article-title":"Information diffusion in social media","volume-title":"Social Media Mining: An Introduction","year":"2014"},{"issue":"3","key":"key2021102914341925000_ref049","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"333","DOI":"10.1016\/j.giq.2015.03.003","article-title":"A sentiment analysis of US local government tweets: the connection between tone and citizen involvement","volume":"32","year":"2015","journal-title":"Government Information Quarterly"},{"issue":"3","key":"key2021102914341925000_ref051","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"427","DOI":"10.1108\/EL-09-2016-0182","article-title":"Assimilation of social media in local government: an examination of key drivers","volume":"35","year":"2017","journal-title":"The Electronic Library"},{"key":"key2021102914341925000_ref050","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"395","DOI":"10.1016\/j.future.2017.09.048","article-title":"Sentiment analysis of Chinese micro-blog text based on extended sentiment dictionary","volume":"81","year":"2018","journal-title":"Future Generation Computer Systems"},{"issue":"4","key":"key2021102914341925000_ref052","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"369","DOI":"10.1016\/j.giq.2013.05.017","article-title":"Social media in Chinese government: drivers, challenges and capabilities","volume":"30","year":"2013","journal-title":"Government Information Quarterly"},{"issue":"1","key":"key2021102914341925000_ref053","first-page":"S106","article-title":"Innovation through social media in the public sector: information and interactions","volume":"31","year":"2014","journal-title":"Government Information Quarterly"},{"issue":"4","key":"key2021102914341925000_ref054","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"770","DOI":"10.1108\/EL-09-2016-0184","article-title":"Emotion evolutions of Sub-topics about popular events on microblogs","volume":"35","year":"2017","journal-title":"The Electronic Library"}],"container-title":["The Electronic Library"],"original-title":[],"language":"en","link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/www.emerald.com\/insight\/content\/doi\/10.1108\/EL-02-2019-0044\/full\/xml","content-type":"application\/xml","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"},{"URL":"https:\/\/www.emerald.com\/insight\/content\/doi\/10.1108\/EL-02-2019-0044\/full\/html","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2025,7,25]],"date-time":"2025-07-25T01:06:46Z","timestamp":1753405606000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"http:\/\/www.emerald.com\/el\/article\/37\/4\/607-623\/91038"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2019,8,14]]},"references-count":54,"journal-issue":{"issue":"4","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,8,14]]},"published-print":{"date-parts":[[2019,9,6]]}},"alternative-id":["10.1108\/EL-02-2019-0044"],"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1108\/el-02-2019-0044","relation":{},"ISSN":["0264-0473","0264-0473"],"issn-type":[{"value":"0264-0473","type":"print"},{"value":"0264-0473","type":"print"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2019,8,14]]}}}