Scholars have recognized emotion as an increasingly important element in the reception and retransmission of online information. In the United States, because of existing differences in ideology, among both audiences and producers of news stories, political issues are prone to spark considerable emotional responses online. While much research has explored emotional responses during election campaigns, this study focuses on the role of online emotion in social media posts related to day-to-day governance in between election periods. Specifically, this study takes the 2018–2019 government shutdown as its subject of investigation. The data set shows the prominence of journalistic and political figures in leading the discussion of news stories, the nuance of emotions employed in the news frames, and the choice of pro-attitudinal news sharing.

学者们已经将情感视为在接收和转发在线信息中越来越重要的元素。在美国，由于在新闻报道的受众和制作者之间意识形态方面存在差异，因此政治问题很容易在网络上引发大量的情感反应。尽管许多研究探索了选举活动期间的情绪反应，但本研究着重于选举期间之间在线情绪在与日常治理相关的社交媒体帖子中的作用。具体而言，本研究以2018-2019年政府停工为调查对象。数据集显示了新闻和政治人物在领导新闻报道的讨论中的突出地位，新闻框架中所使用的情感的细微差别以及赞成纵向新闻共享的选择。