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Choosing Response Strategies in Social Media Crisis Communication: An Evolutionary Game Theory Perspective
Information & Management ( IF 9.9 ) Pub Date : 2020-09-29 , DOI: 10.1016/j.im.2020.103371
Lan Wang , Christoph G. Schuetz , Dahai Cai

When a company experiences the proliferation of negative information on social media, typically as a result of an incident in the real world, the company must decide whether to react positively, such as by responding in a timely manner, disclosing the facts, or offering an apology or compensation, or by reacting negatively with a denial or threat of legal actions. Before responding, the company should consider the potential impacts due to the different reactions of stakeholders. A company's ideal choice of strategy during a social media storm depends on the costs of that strategy for the company and the likelihood that netizens will publicly condemn the company on social media. In this study, we employ a model based on evolutionary game theory to investigate crisis communication on social media. The results show that the company's choice of response strategy influences the evolution of the strategy pursued by Internet users. In the base model, we consider three possible actions for netizens on social media in reaction to an incident: ignoring the incident, noticing the incident but staying silent, and condemning the company and transmitting negative information. Subsequently, we extend the base model to consider complex network structures and defensive behavior. We also studied real-world cases of social media crisis communication and conducted numeric simulations with different parameters in order to determine the evolutionary equilibrium in different situations, which may inform the crisis response strategy selected by companies.



中文翻译:

社交媒体危机传播中的应对策略选择:进化博弈论的视角

当公司在社交媒体上经历负面信息的扩散时,通常是在现实世界中发生的事件,这时,公司必须决定是否要做出积极的反应,例如及时做出反应,披露事实或提供解决方案。道歉或补偿,或对法律行动的拒绝或威胁做出消极反应。在做出回应之前,公司应考虑由于利益相关者的不同反应而产生的潜在影响。在社交媒体风暴期间,公司对策略的理想选择取决于该策略对公司的成本以及网民在社交媒体上公开谴责该公司的可能性。在这项研究中,我们采用基于进化博弈论的模型来研究社交媒体上的危机传播。结果表明,公司 响应策略的选择会影响互联网用户追求的策略的发展。在基本模型中,我们考虑社交媒体上针对事件的网民采取的三种可能的行动:忽略事件,注意到事件但保持沉默,谴责公司并传递负面信息。随后,我们扩展了基本模型,以考虑复杂的网络结构和防御行为。我们还研究了社交媒体危机沟通的真实案例,并使用不同的参数进行了数值模拟,以确定不同情况下的演化均衡,这可以为企业选择危机应对策略提供依据。我们考虑社交媒体上针对事件的网民采取的三种可能的行动:忽略事件,注意到事件但保持沉默,谴责公司并传播负面信息。随后,我们扩展了基本模型,以考虑复杂的网络结构和防御行为。我们还研究了社交媒体危机沟通的真实案例,并使用不同的参数进行了数值模拟,以确定不同情况下的演化均衡,这可以为企业选择危机应对策略提供依据。我们考虑社交媒体上针对事件的网民采取的三种可能的行动:忽略事件,注意到事件但保持沉默,谴责公司并传播负面信息。随后,我们扩展了基本模型,以考虑复杂的网络结构和防御行为。我们还研究了社交媒体危机沟通的真实案例,并使用不同的参数进行了数值模拟,以确定不同情况下的演化均衡,这可以为企业选择危机应对策略提供依据。我们扩展了基本模型,以考虑复杂的网络结构和防御行为。我们还研究了社交媒体危机沟通的真实案例,并使用不同的参数进行了数值模拟,以确定不同情况下的演化均衡,这可以为企业选择危机应对策略提供依据。我们扩展了基本模型,以考虑复杂的网络结构和防御行为。我们还研究了社交媒体危机沟通的真实案例,并使用不同的参数进行了数值模拟,以确定不同情况下的演化均衡,这可以为企业选择危机应对策略提供依据。

更新日期:2020-09-30
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