Emotional talk about robotic technologies on Reddit: Sentiment analysis of life domains, motives, and temporal themes

Nina Savela; David Garcia; Max Pellert; Atte Oksanen

doi:10.1177/14614448211067259

Emotional talk about robotic technologies on Reddit: Sentiment analysis of life domains, motives, and temporal themes

Nina Savela, David Garcia, Max Pellert, Atte Oksanen

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This study grounded on computational social sciences and social psychology investigated sentiment and life domains, motivational, and temporal themes in social media discussions about robotic technologies. We retrieved text comments from the Reddit social media platform in March 2019 based on the following six robotic technology concepts: robot (N = 3,433,554), AI (N = 2,821,614), automation (N = 879,092), bot (N = 21,559,939), intelligent agent (N = 15,119), and software agent (N = 18,324). The comments were processed using VADER and LIWC text analysis tools and analyzed further with logistic regression models. Compared to the other four concepts, robot and AI were used less often in positive context. Comments addressing themes of leisure, money, and future were associated with positive and home, power, and past with negative comments. The results show how the context and terminology affect the emotionality in robotic technology conversations.

Alkuperäiskieli	Englanti
Sivut	757-781
Julkaisu	New Media and Society
Vuosikerta	26
Numero	2
Varhainen verkossa julkaisun päivämäärä	30 jouluk. 2021
DOI - pysyväislinkit	https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448211067259
Tila	Julkaistu - helmik. 2024
OKM-julkaisutyyppi	A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä

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The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This research received funding from Pirkanmaa Regional Fond of the Finnish Cultural Foundation (Robots and Us Project, 2018–2019, PIs Jari Hietanen, Atte Oksanen, and Veikko Sariola), Kone Foundation (Urban AI project, 2021–2024, PI Atte Oksanen, grant 202011325), and from the Vienna Science and Technology Fund (grant VRG16-005, funding Max Pellert and David Garcia).

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Emotional talk about robotic technologies on Reddit: Sentiment analysis of life domains, motives, and temporal themes

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