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What Makes Sports Fans Interactive? Identifying Factors Affecting Chat Interactions in Online Sports Viewing

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  • Minsam Ko
  • Jaeryong Yeo
  • Juyeong Lee
  • Uichin Lee
  • Young Jae Jang

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Sports fans are able to watch games from many locations using TV services while interacting with other fans online. In this paper, we identify the factors that affect sports viewers’ online interactions. Using a large-scale dataset of more than 25 million chat messages from a popular social TV site for baseball, we extract various game-related factors, and investigate the relationships between these factors and fans’ interactions using a series of multiple regression analyses. As a result, we identify several factors that are significantly related to viewer interactions. In addition, we determine that the influence of these factors varies according to the user group; i.e., active vs. less active users, and loyal vs. non-loyal users.

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  • Minsam Ko & Jaeryong Yeo & Juyeong Lee & Uichin Lee & Young Jae Jang, 2016. "What Makes Sports Fans Interactive? Identifying Factors Affecting Chat Interactions in Online Sports Viewing," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 11(2), pages 1-20, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0148377
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0148377
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    1. Haoyu Liu & Kim Hua Tan & Ajay Kumar & Sanjay Kumar Singh & Leanne Chung, 2022. "Value Co-creation in Sports Live Streaming Platforms : A Microfoundations Perspective," Post-Print hal-04325652, HAL.
    2. Chul-Ho Bum & Chulhwan Choi & Kyongmin Lee, 2018. "Irrational Beliefs and Social Adaptation of Online Sports Gamblers According to Addiction Level: A Comparative Study," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 10(11), pages 1-11, November.

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