... aims to investigate the mechanisms by which the social media environment affects users' online emotional disclosure. Design/methodology/approach This paper proposes two dimensions of social media environments, the online interpersonal environment (tie strength and network size) and the online...

...Terry Hui-Ye Chiu; Chien-Chou Chen; Yuh-Jzer Joung; Shymin Chen Purpose – Most studies on tie strength have focused on its definition, calculation and applications, but have not paid much attention to how tie strength can help analyse online social networks. Because ties play different roles...