Understanding Perceptions and Attitudes toward Genetically Modified Organisms on Twitter

Abstract

US over time among laypeople and organizational entities? and RQ3) What are the sentiments associated with GMO-related tweets among laypeople? CCS CONCEPTS• Networks → Network types; • Information systems → Information retrieval; Information retrieval.

Evaluating the perceptions of pesticide use, safety, and regulation and identifying common pesticide‐related topics on Twitter

“…The sentiment analysis indicated seasonality and showed peaks that could correspond to responses to some specific, temporally explicit, major events. However, the peaks seemed not to produce persistent changes in sentiment volumes or slopes, a phenomenon previously observed for genetically modified organism-related discussions on Twitter (Jun et al, 2020). Overall, negative sentiments were much more prevalent than positive ones.…”

“…Twitter, a real-time microblogging platform with a generous data availability policy for academic research, has been widely used to understand public perceptions of, and activism on, the health risks of consumer products. Past studies have focused on e-cigarettes (Liu et al, 2021), dietary supplements (Wang et al, 2021), and genetically modified organisms (Jun et al, 2020).…”

The risk perception of nanotechnology: evidence from twitter

“… 42 Similarly, Jun et al used sentiment analysis to look at lay-opinion of GMO-related information posted by organizations on twitter, they found that the information releases generated strong discussion among stakeholders including consumers, producers and policymakers, and stated that while public opinion is influenced by news topics there were significant shifts in emotions toward GMO over time, but interestingly, those shifts could be temporary as after the campaign subsides, sentiment often reverts back to previous normal values. 43 Twitter produces a discussion that would rarely occur on traditional media platforms. 40 So, whether the subject is of mainstream public concern or of interest to a more finite lay-group, there can be equally high impact during the twitter campaign, therefore, the mass of the “ twitterstorm ” has more impact than the volume.…”