A Topic Modeling Approach Towards Understanding the Discourse between Religion and Videogames on ...
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A corpus of 1,128 religious posts with 4,119 comments and 4,557 game posts with 12,236 comments is embedded with an open sentence embedder from Hugging Face and clustered with BERTopic + Hugging Face sentence embedder, yielding 22 distinct sub-themes organized into three themes: blatant Blasphemous Elements, Religion as a Design Space, and Videogames for Religious Education and Community Forming. Specific findings include gambling labeled Haram, cow-related content offending Hindus, Binding of Isaac triggering some Christians, community requests for religious characters and holiday skins, and evidence of both toxicity and celebratory community building.
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