RESEARCH ON THE THEORETICAL CONNOTATIONS, HOT TOPICS, AND TRENDS OF SOCIAL EMOTIONAL RESONANCE
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.52326/jss.utm.2026.9(1).10Keywords:
emotional resonance, affective communication, social emotional communication, hot topicsAbstract
With the evolution of public opinion research from "information flow" to "emotion flow", the importance of "emotion" in social public communication issues has been deeply recognized, and the concept of social emotional resonance has begun to attract the attention of scholars. Taking 2,450 Chinese and English literatures from China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) and Web of Science(WoS) databases in the past decade as samples, this paper adopts literature analysis method, scientometrics method and scientific knowledge graph analysis method, with CiteSpace software as the analysis tool. It applies analytical methods such as keyword co-occurrence, keyword clustering and timeline graph, and analyzes the visualized network knowledge graph to clarify the research theories, methods, hot topics and dynamic trends of social emotional resonance in the past decade, so as to explore the current situation and future development of domestic and international research on social emotional resonance.
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