as social support: Relational closeness, automaticity, and interpreting social support from paralinguistic digital affordances in social media

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Highlights：

• Explores how social support is derived from one-click affordances in social media.

• Paralinguistic digital affordances (PDAs) include Likes, Favorites, and Upvotes.

• Users interpret individual PDAs idiosyncratically and heuristically.

• Main and interaction effects identified for three antecedents of social support.

• Introduces the Daphnis effect, whereby automatic PDAs from close friends mitigate social support perceived.

摘要

•Explores how social support is derived from one-click affordances in social media.•Paralinguistic digital affordances (PDAs) include Likes, Favorites, and Upvotes.•Users interpret individual PDAs idiosyncratically and heuristically.•Main and interaction effects identified for three antecedents of social support.•Introduces the Daphnis effect, whereby automatic PDAs from close friends mitigate social support perceived.

论文关键词：Social media,Paralinguistic digital affordance,Social support,Interpersonal ties,Relational closeness,Phatic communication

论文评审过程：Received 12 November 2015, Revised 9 March 2016, Accepted 31 March 2016, Available online 13 April 2016, Version of Record 13 April 2016.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2016.03.087