A perspective from Turkey on construction of the new digital world: analysis of emotions and future expectations regarding Metaverse on Twitter
HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES COMMUNICATIONS |, cilt.0, sa.0, ss.1-8, 2023 (SSCI)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
- Cilt numarası: 0 Sayı: 0
- Basım Tarihi: 2023
- Doi Numarası: 10.1057/s41599-023-01958-7
- Dergi Adı: HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES COMMUNICATIONS |
- Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.1-8
- Kütahya Sağlık Bilimleri Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
Metaverse is a new digital world where the real and virtual worlds merge on a technological
ground. After Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook hyped the metaverse, attention was drawn
to it all over the world. In Turkey, the Metaverse was hyped in the “Teke Tek Bilim” program
and Twitter users shared their views for days afterwards. This study aims to analyse Twitter
users’ feelings about the Metaverse and their expectations for the future. The 10,437 tweets
shared in Turkey between 10 January 2022 and 17 January 2022 with the hashtag Metaverse
were analyzed using sentiment analysis techniques. The findings of the study indicate the
metaverse will increase technological investments, new services, products, and markets will
emerge, it may lead to irregularities in ethical codes and rules, society may be unready for
technological developments, and media addiction may occur.