Problem
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affective publics
Arabic YouTube
emotional register
socio-political topics
MENA region
Affective publics in Arabic YouTube
🤖 AI Summary
研究通过分析67,725条涉及中东五国社会政治话题的YouTube评论，揭示了阿拉伯语YouTube情感公共体的情感基调为共同但有地域差异的负面情绪。
📝 Abstract
What is the emotional register of Arabic YouTube's affective publics? To investigate this, we analyzed 67,725 YouTube comments collected around socio-political topics associated with Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Jordan, and Syria using a unified sentiment-and-emotion pipeline. Our results profile a single regional affective public rather than five separate national ones. Sentiment is overwhelmingly negative across all five country-oriented corpora, and the country-level emotion profiles are structurally similar. This shared register still accommodates some regional variations: discourse is organized around country-level political actors and cross-border historical trauma figures, and grief singularizes Iraq from the other countries. The differences in emotional register also tracks lived political causes rather than fixed categories, which we observe from patterns of the valence of US-related content, that tracks the presence or absence of direct US military engagement. Our work shows that the emotional register of Arabic YouTube's affective publics is a shared one that is historically layered and geographically conditioned, which has implications for public diplomacy in the MENA region.
Innovation
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affective publics
unified sentiment-and-emotion pipeline
regional variations
historically layered
geographically conditioned
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