TY - GEN
T1 - Impact of Reddit Discussions on Use or Abandonment of Wearables
AU - Garg, Radhika
AU - Kim, Jenna
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Discussion platform, Reddit, is the third most visited website in the US. People can post their questions on this platform to get varying opinions from fellow users, which in turn might also influence their behavior and choices. Wearables are becoming widely adopted, yet challenges persist in their effective long term use because of technical and device related, or personal issues. Therefore, by employing sentiment analysis, this paper aims to analyze how decisions of use or abandonment of wearables are influenced by discussions on Reddit. The results are based on the analysis of 6680 posts and their associated 50,867 comments posted between December 2015 – December 2017 on the subreddit (user created groups) on android wear. Our results show that sentiment of the discussion is majorly dictated by the sentiment of the post itself, and people decide to continue using their devices when fellow Redditors offer them workarounds, or the discussion receives majority of positive or fact-driven neutral comments.
AB - Discussion platform, Reddit, is the third most visited website in the US. People can post their questions on this platform to get varying opinions from fellow users, which in turn might also influence their behavior and choices. Wearables are becoming widely adopted, yet challenges persist in their effective long term use because of technical and device related, or personal issues. Therefore, by employing sentiment analysis, this paper aims to analyze how decisions of use or abandonment of wearables are influenced by discussions on Reddit. The results are based on the analysis of 6680 posts and their associated 50,867 comments posted between December 2015 – December 2017 on the subreddit (user created groups) on android wear. Our results show that sentiment of the discussion is majorly dictated by the sentiment of the post itself, and people decide to continue using their devices when fellow Redditors offer them workarounds, or the discussion receives majority of positive or fact-driven neutral comments.
KW - (Non-)use of technology
KW - Reddit
KW - Sentiment analysis
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-15742-5_43
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-15742-5_43
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85064054606
SN - 9783030157418
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 444
EP - 455
BT - Information in Contemporary Society - 14th International Conference, iConference 2019, Proceedings
A2 - Taylor, Natalie Greene
A2 - Martin, Michelle H.
A2 - Nardi, Bonnie
A2 - Christian-Lamb, Caitlin
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 14th International Conference on Information in Contemporary Society, iConference 2019
Y2 - 31 March 2019 through 3 April 2019
ER -