A Survey on Watching Social Issue Videos among YouTube and TikTok Users

The openness and influence of video-sharing platforms (VSPs) such as YouTube and TikTok attracted creators to share videos on various social issues. Although social issue videos (SIVs) affect public opinions and breed misinformation, how VSP users obtain information and interact with SIVs is under-explored. This work surveyed 659 YouTube and 127 TikTok users to understand the motives for consuming SIVs on VSPs. We found that VSP users are primarily motivated by the information and entertainment gratifications to use the platform. VSP users use SIVs for information-seeking purposes and find YouTube and TikTok convenient to interact with SIVs. VSP users moderately watch SIVs for entertainment and inactively engage in social interactions. SIV consumption is associated with information and socialization gratifications of the platform. VSP users appreciate the diversity of information and opinions but would also do their own research and are concerned about the misinformation and echo chamber problems

Understanding Hate Group Videos on YouTube

Hate content warning: This paper contains hate ideology content that may cause discomfort. As the largest video-sharing platform, YouTube has been known for hosting hate ideology content that could lead to between-group conflicts and extremism. Research has examined search algorithms and the creator-fan networks related to radicalization videos on YouTube. However, there is little grounded theory analysis of videos of hate groups to understand how hate groups present to the viewers and discuss social problems, solutions, and actions. This work presents a preliminary analysis of 96 videos using open-coding and affinity diagramming to identify common video styles created by the U.S. hate ideology groups. We also annotated hate videos\u27 diagnostic, prognostic, and motivational framing to understand how the hate groups utilize video-sharing platforms to promote collective actions