(Institute of Social Sciences, 2019)
Örnek, Esra; Elmadağ Baş, Ayşe Banu; 569605; Management Business Administration; İşletme Yönetimi
Although many studies have examined the use of emoji in computer mediated communication environment, no academic research has been conducted for the effect of emoji usage in consumer comments and enterprises' responses in service sector. In this study, the impact of using emoji in online consumer comments and company responses on positive word of mouth, purchase intention and expected service quality for the hospitality sector was investigated. The medium is selected as most used online travel agency, booking.com. Negative and positive message valences, different paralinguistic cues conditions (pure text or text with emoji) on consumer comments and different paralinguistic cues conditions (pure text or text with emoji) on enterprise's replies were conducted to examine the impact of emoji usage. Online survey method was used to collect data and participants were asked to answer questions about the positive word of mouth, purchase intention and expected service quality with different message valances of reviews.