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Emotions in Online Gambling Communities: A Multilevel Sentiment Analysis

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Social Computing and Social Media. Design, Ethics, User Behavior, and Social Network Analysis (HCII 2020)

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In this study, we analyzed whether interaction dynamics are related to emotional expressions within online gambling communities. As data, we used 8452 comments posted on Reddit gambling communities. The data were analyzed with sentiment analysis tool VADER and multilevel regression analysis. Results showed that comments were more positive when they were directed to other users and made by users with more interactive commenting behavior. Comments were less positive in those discussions that were most active and in those that mainly involved replies to other users. We also found that more positive posts received more positive commenting and negative posts received more negative comments. Overall, the activity and interactivity of communication and emotional correlation are associated with positive emotional expression in online communication. For negative emotions, we found evidence only for emotional correlation. Future studies should explore how interaction dynamics together with more contextual factors shape emotional expressions within online communities.

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This study was funded by the Finnish Foundation for Alcohol Studies (Problem Gambling and Social Media Project, 2017–2019, PI: Atte Oksanen). David Garcia was funded by the Vienna Science and Technology Fund through the project “Emotional Well-Being in the Digital Society” (Grant No. VRG16-005).

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    Markus Kaakinen

  2. Tampere University, Tampere, Finland

    Atte Oksanen, Anu Sirola & Iina Savolainen

  3. Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

    David Garcia

  4. Complexity Science Hub Vienna, Vienna, Austria

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Kaakinen, M., Oksanen, A., Sirola, A., Savolainen, I., Garcia, D. (2020). Emotions in Online Gambling Communities: A Multilevel Sentiment Analysis. In: Meiselwitz, G. (eds) Social Computing and Social Media. Design, Ethics, User Behavior, and Social Network Analysis. HCII 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12194. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49570-1_38

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