The data was collected as part of a dissertation project for the MA Psychoanalytic Studies 2020-2021. The project is entitled "Subjection in the human:non-human encounter". The purpose is to understand the emotional and psychological reactions of a human encountering a non-human, and how it affects their process of subjection. 

The Twitter Academia API was used to search for tweets with the phrase "you are a bot", and the surrounding "threads" of the tweets were collected for contextual conversation data. 

The tweets were transformed into semiotic tweets which accentuated the psycholinguistics markings of the text using a series of original techniques detailed in the java code named dissertation-code. 

The transformed tweets were then clustered using K-means algorithm to try and decipher the range of emotional reactions twitter users had when realising they were encountering a bot. The results of the clustering are in the data set, as well as the code used to perform the clustering.