Public vs media opinion on robots and their evolution over recent years
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Public vs media opinion on robots and their evolution over recent years Alireza Javaheri1 · Navid Moghadamnejad2 · Hamidreza Keshavarz3 · Ehsan Javaheri4 · Chelsea Dobbins5 · Elaheh Momeni‑Ortner6 · Reza Rawassizadeh7 Received: 4 February 2020 / Accepted: 3 July 2020 © China Computer Federation (CCF) 2020
Abstract During recent years, the fast proliferation of robots in people’s everyday lives calls for a profound examination of public consensus, which is the ultimate determinant of the future of this industry. This paper investigates text corpora, consisting of posts in Google News, Bing News, and Kickstarter, over an 8-year period and Twitter over a 1-year period, to quantify the public’s and media’s opinion about this emerging technology. The results of our analysis demonstrate that news platforms and the public take an overall positive position on robots. However, there is a deviation between news coverage and Twitter users’ attitudes. Among various robot types, sex robots raise the fiercest debate. Besides, based on our analysis the public and news media conceptualization of robotics has altered over recent years. More specifically, a shift from solely industrialpurpose machines, towards more social, assistive, and multi-purpose gadgets is visible. Keywords Social media · News media · Robots · Opinion mining
1 Introduction The fourth industrial revolution is most likely to alter the nature of work, business, and society in the coming decades (Hirschi 2018; Arntz et al. 2016; Brynjolfsson and McAfee 2014; Frey and Osborne 2017). Not only are fast developments spurring individuals’ daily routines, but also fresh potentials are being made in the market (Brynjolfsson and
Alireza Javaheri and Navid Moghadamnejad have contributed equally to the paper and they are co-first authors. * Reza Rawassizadeh [email protected]
McAfee 2014); through which, new enterprises like iRobot1 and Touch Bionics2 are emerging and demonstrating success. Microsoft co-founder, Bill Gates predicted that robots would inevitably be on the rise, just as personal computers were at the end of the last century (Gates 2007). Robotic surgery (Howe and Matsuoka 1999), controlling autonomous vehicles (Lozano-Perez 2012) and tutoring students (Saerbeck et al. 2010) are among the responsibilities that
Elaheh Momeni‑Ortner elaheh.momeni‑[email protected] 1
Independent Researcher, Rouen, France
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Independent Researcher, Togliatti, Russia
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Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
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The Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
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Ehsan Javaheri [email protected]‑berlin.de
University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
Chelsea Dobbins [email protected]
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https://irobot.com/. http://touchbionics.com/.
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