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Cross-platform analysis of user comments in YouTube videos linked on Reddit conspiracy theory forum

Social and Information Networks 2021-09-03 v1
Authors: Tomislav Duricic , Volker Seiser , Elisabeth Lex
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Abstract

We perform a cross-platform analysis in which we study how does linking YouTube content on Reddit conspiracy forum impact language used in user comments on YouTube. Our findings show a slight change in user language in that it becomes more similar to language used on Reddit.

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cross-platform analysis user comments youtube reddit conspiracy theory language similarity

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@article{arxiv.2109.01127,
  title  = {Cross-platform analysis of user comments in YouTube videos linked on Reddit conspiracy theory forum},
  author = {Tomislav Duricic and Volker Seiser and Elisabeth Lex},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.01127},
  year   = {2021}
}

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2 page extended abstract accepted at the 7th International Conference on Computational Social Science (https://ic2s2-2021.ethz.ch/)

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