Social media continues to be an ever-present part of people’s lives. One of the largest social media websites, Reddit has more than 430 million unique visitors monthly. What is unknown to scholars is how gifted education fits into this modern form of communication. In our research, we examined how gifted education is discussed over Reddit using text mining in combination with sentiment analysis. In addition, our research conditioned sentiment on variables such as self-disclosure, interest, and controversy. We found that, overall, discussion of giftedness was neutral in terms of sentiment and used common language across subreddits. We also found that the language used and distribution of sentiment were similar between self-disclosures and non-self-disclosures.

社交媒体仍然是人们生活中永远存在的一部分。作为最大的社交媒体网站之一，Reddit 每月拥有超过 4.3 亿的独立访问者。学者们不知道的是，天才教育如何融入这种现代的交流形式。在我们的研究中，我们研究了如何使用文本挖掘结合情感分析在 Reddit 上讨论天才教育。此外，我们的研究以自我披露、兴趣和争议等变量为条件。我们发现，总体而言，关于天赋的讨论在情感方面是中立的，并且在子版块中使用了共同语言。我们还发现，自我披露和非自我披露所使用的语言和情绪分布相似。