Organizing User Comments in a Social Video Sharing System by Temporal Duration and Pointing Region

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daisuke Kitayama ◽  
Natsumi Oda ◽  
Kazutoshi Sumiya
Keyword(s):  
Temporal Duration ◽  
Video Sharing ◽  
User Comments

Political Information Use and Its Relationship to Beliefs in Conspiracy Theories Among the German Public

2021 ◽  
pp. 107769902110635
Author(s):  
Christian Schemer ◽  
Marc Ziegele ◽  
Tanjev Schultz ◽  
Oliver Quiring ◽  
Nikolaus Jackob ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Conspiracy Theories ◽  
Video Sharing ◽  
News Sources ◽  
User Comments ◽  
Tv News ◽  
Party Preference ◽  
Left And Right ◽  
Frequent Exposure

This study investigates how exposure to different news sources, propensity to vote (PTV) for a party and demographics are related to belief in conspiracy theories drawing on three repeated cross-sectional surveys in Germany 2017–2019. Results show that frequent exposure to alternative news sites and video-sharing platforms increased conspiratorial beliefs. Frequency of exposure to the quality press, public service TV news, and news aggregators diminished beliefs in conspiracy theories. Exposure to TV news, legacy media online, tabloids, social media, and user comments was unrelated to such beliefs. PTV for far left and right parties increased conspiratorial beliefs, moderate party preference reduced them.

Rap it up, share it up: Identity politics of youth “social” movement in Moroccan online rap music

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (5) ◽  
pp. 1043-1064
Author(s):  
Mohamed Ben Moussa
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Rap Music ◽  
Youth Movement ◽  
Video Sharing ◽  
Youth Identity ◽  
Multimodal Discourse ◽  
User Comments ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
Four Levels

This study examines the discursive and artistic expression of Moroccan youth identity politics through the production and consumption of rap music online, particularly on YouTube. Drawing on multimodal discourse analysis (MDA), the study explores textual, visual, and reception modes and discourses of Moroccan rap songs mediated through songs’ lyrics, video clips, and user comments on the video sharing platform. Focusing on four levels of discourse, namely, narrative and interpersonal representation, genre, modality, and style, the study examines the following key questions: What are the discourses that emerge from the production, circulation, and consumption of online rap music by Moroccan youth? How do online rap production and reception contribute to identity formation among Moroccan youth? To what extent does online rap music contribute to the development of a progressive and alternative social youth movement that challenges dominant cultural and political power relations?

scholarly journals “What Others Dare Not Say”: An Antisemitic Conspiracy Fantasy and its YouTube Audience

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (3.1) ◽  
pp. 35-54
Author(s):  
Daniel Allington ◽  
Tanvi Joshi
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Interface Design ◽  
Conspiracy Theory ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Historical Discourse ◽  
Video Sharing ◽  
User Comments ◽  
Active Portion ◽  
Anti Jewish

The YouTube video-sharing platform is one of the most important sites for the dissemination of conspiracy theory, or—to give it a more accurately descriptive term—conspiracy fantasy. After surveying the historical and contemporary evidence for the role of conspiracy fantasy in right-wing violent extremism, this article turns its focus to a YouTube video excerpted from a public lecture in which professional conspiracy theorist David Icke purports to expose members of a “Rothschild Zionist” secret society. First, historical discourse analysis is used to situate Icke’s fantasy within the antisemitic tradition of the extreme right. Then, the reception of Icke’s fantasy is studied through quantitative content analysis of YouTube user comments (n = 1123). Comments supportive of the video and its creator are found to outnumber comments that challenge them, as are comments expressing hostility to Jews or extending the video’s accusations against “Rothschild Zionists” to real-world Jewish collectivities. Moreover, the most popular comments are found to be disproportionately likely to be supportive of Icke or his video or otherwise anti-Jewish. These findings provide evidence that at least the active portion of the video’s YouTube audience may have had a tendency not only towards support of Icke’s ideas but also towards linkage of those ideas with an overtly antisemitic worldview. It is argued that YouTube’s ranking of comments by popularity may be serving to insulate harmful fantasies such as Icke’s from rational challenge by rendering genuinely critical responses invisible. This illustrates the dangers of outsourcing the evaluation of content to an online user community. But it also suggests that YouTube’s user interface design may be actively contributing to the spread of misinformation and bigotry by placing those who try to oppose them at a disadvantage. Keywords: antizionism, audience, conspiracism, conspiracy fantasy, conspiracy theory, content analysis, David Icke, discourse analysis, reception, right-wing extremism, YouTube

scholarly journals “What Others Dare Not Say”: An Antisemitic Conspiracy Fantasy and its YouTube Audience

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (3.1) ◽  
pp. 35-54
Author(s):  
Daniel Allington ◽  
Tanvi Joshi
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Interface Design ◽  
Conspiracy Theory ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Historical Discourse ◽  
Video Sharing ◽  
User Comments ◽  
Active Portion ◽  
Anti Jewish

The YouTube video-sharing platform is one of the most important sites for the dissemination of conspiracy theory, or—to give it a more accurately descriptive term—conspiracy fantasy. After surveying the historical and contemporary evidence for the role of conspiracy fantasy in right-wing violent extremism, this article turns its focus to a YouTube video excerpted from a public lecture in which professional conspiracy theorist David Icke purports to expose members of a “Rothschild Zionist” secret society. First, historical discourse analysis is used to situate Icke’s fantasy within the antisemitic tradition of the extreme right. Then, the reception of Icke’s fantasy is studied through quantitative content analysis of YouTube user comments (n = 1123). Comments supportive of the video and its creator are found to outnumber comments that challenge them, as are comments expressing hostility to Jews or extending the video’s accusations against “Rothschild Zionists” to real-world Jewish collectivities. Moreover, the most popular comments are found to be disproportionately likely to be supportive of Icke or his video or otherwise anti-Jewish. These findings provide evidence that at least the active portion of the video’s YouTube audience may have had a tendency not only towards support of Icke’s ideas but also towards linkage of those ideas with an overtly antisemitic worldview. It is argued that YouTube’s ranking of comments by popularity may be serving to insulate harmful fantasies such as Icke’s from rational challenge by rendering genuinely critical responses invisible. This illustrates the dangers of outsourcing the evaluation of content to an online user community. But it also suggests that YouTube’s user interface design may be actively contributing to the spread of misinformation and bigotry by placing those who try to oppose them at a disadvantage. Keywords: antizionism, audience, conspiracism, conspiracy fantasy, conspiracy theory, content analysis, David Icke, discourse analysis, reception, right-wing extremism, YouTube

The Interface Affect of a Contact Zone: Danmaku on Video-Streaming Platforms

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 233-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jinying Li
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Video Streaming ◽  
Contact Zone ◽  
Interface Design ◽  
Video Sharing ◽  
User Comments ◽  
Theatrical Film ◽  
Affective Experiences ◽  
Affective Intensity

Abstract This essay interrogates the transmedial, transnational expansion of platforms by analyzing the mediation functions and affective experiences of a discursive interface, danmaku. It is a unique interface design originally featured by the Japanese video-sharing platform Niconico to render user comments flying over videos on screen. The danmaku interface has been widely adopted in China by video-streaming websites, social media, and theatrical film exhibitions. Examining the fundamental incoherence that is structured by the interface – the incoherence between content and platform, between the temporal experiences of pseudo-live-ness and spectral past – the paper underlines the notion of ‘contact’ as the central logic of platforms and argues that danmaku functions as a volatile contact zone among conflicting modes, logics, and structures of digital media. Such contested contacts generate affective intensity of media regionalism, in which the transmedial/transnational processes managed by platforms in material/textual traffic are mapped by the flow of affect on the interface.

Assessments of User Comments With “Alternative Views” as a Function of Media Trust

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Marlene Kunst
Keyword(s):  
Online Discussions ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Argument Quality ◽  
The Public ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
User Comments ◽  
Media Trust ◽  
Heuristic Information Processing

Abstract. Comments sections under news articles have become popular spaces for audience members to oppose the mainstream media’s perspective on political issues by expressing alternative views. This kind of challenge to mainstream discourses is a necessary element of proper deliberation. However, due to heuristic information processing and the public concern about disinformation online, readers of comments sections may be inherently skeptical about user comments that counter the views of mainstream media. Consequently, commenters with alternative views may participate in discussions from a position of disadvantage because their contributions are scrutinized particularly critically. Nevertheless, this effect has hitherto not been empirically established. To address this gap, a multifactorial, between-subjects experimental study ( N = 166) was conducted that investigated how participants assess the credibility and argument quality of media-dissonant user comments relative to media-congruent user comments. The findings revealed that media-dissonant user comments are, indeed, disadvantaged in online discussions, as they are assessed as less credible and more poorly argued than media-congruent user comments. Moreover, the findings showed that the higher the participants’ level of media trust, the worse the assessment of media-dissonant user comments relative to media-congruent user comments. Normative implications and avenues for future research are discussed.

“Are You Religious or are You Saved?”

2012 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-63
Author(s):  
Stephen Pihlaja
Keyword(s):  
Multimodal Approach ◽  
Membership Categorization Analysis ◽  
Evangelical Christian ◽  
Video Images ◽  
User Comments ◽  
Membership Categorization ◽  
Longitudinal Observation

Using membership categorization analysis, this article investigates membership categories in a YouTube video made by an Evangelical Christian in which he differentiates between “saved” and “religious” users. Analysis will take a discourse-centred, multimodal approach grounded in longitudinal observation, using analysis of video discourse to instruct analysis of video images and user comments. Findings will show that categorization is accomplished by using recognized categories with ambiguous descriptions of category-bound activities that include metaphors, such as “being hungry for God” and not “hanging out with atheists.” These categories are recognized by commenters on the video, but the category bound activities applied to the category members are disputed. Findings will also show that scriptural reference plays an important role in categorization in the video, drawing on direct Bible quotes as well as paraphrases of key passages.

Video-based Parent Education on Topical Ointment Therapy in Childhood Atopic Dermatitis Using a Tablet Computer and Video-sharing Website

2015 ◽  
Vol 77 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tetsuya MORIUE ◽  
Junko MORIUE ◽  
Kozo NAKAI ◽  
Ikumi YOKOI ◽  
Kozo YONEDA ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Atopic Dermatitis ◽  
Parent Education ◽  
Tablet Computer ◽  
Video Sharing
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