  Human values play a vital role as an analytical tool in social sciences,
enabling the study of diverse dimensions within society as a whole and among
individual communities. This paper addresses the limitations of traditional
survey-based studies of human values by proposing a computational application
of Schwartz's values framework to Reddit, a platform organized into distinct
online communities. After ensuring the reliability of automated value
extraction tools for Reddit content, we automatically annotate six million
posts across 10,000 subreddits with Schwartz values. Our analysis unveils both
previously recorded and novel insights into the values prevalent within various
online communities. For instance, when examining subreddits with differing
opinions on controversial topics, we discover higher universalism values in the
Vegan subreddit compared to Carnivores. Additionally, our study of
geographically specific subreddits highlights the correlation between
traditional values and conservative U.S. states.
