Table 1 The descriptive statistics of the variables.

From: Yesterday once more: collective storytelling and public engagement with digital cultural products on the music streaming platform

Variables

Mean

SD

Dependent variables

 • User Engagement

5.9

1.7

 • Music Quality

3.6

0.81

Independent variables

 • Comments’ Topic: Nostalgia (NoC)

0.52

0.31

 • Comments’ Topic: Expressing the feelings about music

0.49

0.31

 • Comments’ Topic: Expressing views on relevant films and TV dramas

0.5

0.31

 • Comments’ Topic: Evaluating the creation of songs

0.5

0.31

 • Comments’ Topic: Evaluating the performance of singer(s)

0.5

0.31

 • Negative Polarity of Comments (NeC)

3.4

2.4

 • Comments’ Emotion: Love

0.41

0.31

 • Comments’ Emotion: Happiness

0.022

0.092

 • Comments’ Emotion: Sadness (SaC)

0.046

0.13

 • Comments’ Emotion: Anger

0.0011

0.019

 • Comments’ Emotion: Fear

0.012

0.065

 • Comments’ Emotion: Disgust

0.12

0.19

 • Comments’ Emotion: Surprise

0.0023

0.026

 • Lyrics’ content: Nostalgia (NoL)

0.26

0.44

 • Lyrics’ content: Negative Polarity (NeL)

−32

22

 • Lyrics’ content: Sadness (SaL)

3.6

3.9

Control variables

 • Album Number (log)

3.5

1.1

 • Likes Number (log)

4.8

1.6