Empirical analysis of the judgment of unconditional basic income through YouTube comments Cover Image

A feltétel nélküli alapjövedelem megítélésének empirikus elemzése YouTube hozzászólásokon keresztül
Empirical analysis of the judgment of unconditional basic income through YouTube comments

Author(s): Eszter Oláh
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Debreceni Egyetem Politikatudományi és Szociológiai Intézet
Keywords: text mining; computer text analysis; sentiment analysis; unconditional basic income; work-based society

Summary/Abstract: One of the world’s largest video-sharing platforms is YouTube, where viewers can comment on the videos and their topics. The aim of this study is to examine the values and opinions about unconditional basic income according to the comment sections of several Youtube’s videos which topic is the previously mentioned UBI which is receiving increasing attention in parallel with today’s economic and social changes. Our research works with a mixed method, data collection, storage, sentiment analysis and the bag of words method which were implemented using IT procedures, while categorization was done through manual coding. The results of the sentiment analysis show that positive arguments appear to a lesser extent in the comments. Positive arguments have value characteristics such as inclusion, the principle of the right to exist, justice and freedom. Among the positive arguments feasibility enjoys the highest support. Negative category values arise more frequently, so the emphasis on the values of injustice, exclusion, unaffordability, and performance-orientation is dominant in the analyzed comments.

  • Issue Year: 10/2021
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 68-93
  • Page Count: 26
  • Language: Hungarian
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