{"id":496,"date":"2019-02-07T13:17:05","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T13:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cs4984spring19\/?p=496"},"modified":"2019-02-07T13:17:07","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T13:17:07","slug":"reading-reflection-4-02-07-raghu-srinivasan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cs4984spring19\/2019\/02\/07\/reading-reflection-4-02-07-raghu-srinivasan\/","title":{"rendered":"[Reading Reflection 4] &#8211; [02\/07] &#8211; [Raghu, Srinivasan]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Summary:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This paper was primarily about comparing the similarities and\ndifferences between comments and video content in a selection of right-wing and\nbaseline Youtube accounts. Through analyzing the lexicon, topics, and implicit\nbiases present in the texts, comparisons were made between these groups based\non a set of features. Some of the key conclusions drawn are listed below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Right-wing accounts are typically more specific\nin their content, and also contain a higher percentage of negative words, such\nas \u201caggression\u201d, \u201ckill\u201d, and \u201cviolence\u201d. On the other hand, baseline channels\ntypically contain a higher percentage of positive words, such as \u201cjoy\u201d and \u201coptimism\u201d.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Comments generally use more words such as \u201cdisgust\u201d\nand \u201chate\u201d, whereas captions typically use more words such as \u201caggression\u201d, \u201crage\u201d,\nand \u201cviolence\u201d. Youtube commentators are generally more exacerbated than video\nhosts on hate and discrimination topics.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>There was not a significant difference in\nimmigrant or LGBT bias between the both types of accounts. However, right-wing\naccounts tend to have a negative bias towards Muslim communities.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Right-wing accounts tend to have a higher bias\nagainst immigrants and Muslim communities in captions compared to a higher bias\nagainst LGBT groups in comments. They also typically raise more topics related\nto war and terrorism.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reflection:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have listed below a line that interested me in the paper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAmong\nthe top ranked topics for the right-wing captions, we observe a relevant\nfrequency of words related to war and terrorism, including nato, torture and\nbombing, and a relevant frequency of words related to espionage and information\nwar, like assange, wikileaks\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This statistic did not come as any surprise to me while reading this paper since most right-wing people heavily support increased defense spending to help end the war on terrorism. Wikileaks would also be a hot topic amonst right-wing people since Hillary Clinton\u2019s emails from her private email server were leaked on Wikileaks. I\u2019m also left wondering what the similarities and differences amongst comments and video content on left-wing videos are and how they compare to that of these videos. <em>Would there be just as much negative sentiment on those videos as well?<\/em> <em>Or would they employ more positive sentiment?<\/em> A potential glimpse into the answer to this question could be inferred upon from the fact that the study used The Young Turks as a baseline source, which is interesting since their views are fairly liberal. This source ended up having a more positive sentiment when referring to immigrants, LGBT, and Muslim groups. However, that\u2019s not to say that there could exist other groups that left-wing videos may be more hostile towards. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Other Thoughts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Overall, I wasn\u2019t too surprised\nwith the results of the paper, given the nature of right-wing politics. I\u2019m\nvery interested in seeing how these results compare with left-wing videos, as I\nbelieve that hate is likely to be found on the far right and far left ends of\nthe political spectrum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: This paper was primarily about comparing the similarities and differences between comments and video content in a selection of right-wing and baseline Youtube accounts. Through analyzing the lexicon, topics, and implicit biases present in the texts, comparisons were made between these groups based on a set of features. Some of the key conclusions drawn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":255,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cs4984spring19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cs4984spring19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cs4984spring19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cs4984spring19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/255"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cs4984spring19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cs4984spring19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":497,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cs4984spring19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions\/497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cs4984spring19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cs4984spring19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/cs4984spring19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}