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Where do cross-cutting discussions happen?: Identifying cross-cutting comments on YouTube videos of political vloggers and mainstream news outlets
S. W. Chae and S. H. Lee
Are online comment sections echo chambers or unexpected marketplaces of debate? Researchers Seung Woo Chae and Sung Hyun Lee analyze comments on political vlogger videos and mainstream news outlet videos—using manual coding and NLP classifiers—to show how channel political leaning and media type shape cross-cutting discussions and suggest neutral outlets may foster debate.
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