About this project

This project develops methods to extract real-time social signals from large-scale YouTube data, with a focus on mapping perceptions of violence from video comments. Combining natural language processing with network and temporal analysis, it asks whether platform conversation data can serve as an early, location-sensitive indicator of real-world events and sentiment.

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