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초록

Is Blue House Online Petition a mere channel of raw anger or a field of direct democrary? This study aims to understand empirically the impact of emotions on political participation and opinion. We collected all the posts accumulated for more than a year from the opening of the Blue House Online Petition page (total 88,113 cases after de-duplication). Then, through natural language processing (structural topical models and word2vec), the agenda and emotions expressed in the petition page were identified. And, through the negativebinomial regression analysis, we find out the relation between components of document and number of approve on that document. The results are as follows. First, a large number of written agendas do not get the majority's consent automatically. Second, anger has a greater effect on consent than sadness. Third, anger gains greater favour when combined with agenda related to everyday life than with serious conflict agenda. This study shows that Blue House Online Petition is a space that incubate various possibilities. And through an empirical approach, we hope to resolve the fictional confrontation between emotion and reason, and to explore the conditions under which various channels of political participation can strengthen democracy.