Table 1.

Number of unique sources with Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) subcategory words and average percentage of categorized words per source for each type of analyzed information^a.

LIWC category	Web pages (n=612), n (%)	Words per web page (%; n=612), mean	Blogs (n=227), n (%)	Words per blogs (%; n=227), mean	Articles (n=300), n (%)	Words per articles (%; n=300), mean
Positive tone	564 (92.2)	4.4	227 (100)	4.1	300 (100)	1.7
Negative tone	584 (95.4)	1.8	227 (100)	1.7	300 (100)	1.2
Emotionally positive words	339 (55.4)	0.7	193 (85)	1	296 (98.7)	0.1
Emotionally negative words	578 (94.4)	1.1	227 (100)	0.9	300 (100)	0.8
Anxiety	222 (36.3)	0.5	137 (60.4)	0.4	235 (78.3)	0.1
Anger	111 (18.1)	0.9	67 (29.5)	0.3	179 (59.7)	0.04
Sad	170 (27.8)	0.4	109 (48)	0.4	294 (98)	0.4
Illness	601 (98.2)	4.9	226 (99.6)	2.6	300 (100)	1.7
Wellness	253 (41.3)	0.8	106 (46.7)	0.7	293 (97.7)	0.3
Death	112 (18.3)	0.4	60 (26.4)	0.3	210 (70)	0.1

^aFor each unique information source that included a subcategory, the percentage of all the words in that source that fell within a specified category was calculated. The average of all these percentages is reported in the table.