Description
This paper examines how content production and consumption interact on YouTube and how this relationship contributes to ideological shifts, including movement toward more extreme views. Using a longitudinal mixed‑methods dataset, one year of YouTube watch history paired with two waves of ideological surveys from 1,100 U.S. participants, the authors identify users who became more extreme over time and compare their viewing patterns with those who remained ideologically stable. The study finds that users who shifted toward more extreme ideologies consume different types of content, and that the channels they follow tend to produce videos with higher levels of anger, grievance, and similar emotional markers.
Related topic
New Technologies and the Online Dimension
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Language:
English
Date:
05-07-2026
Proposed by:
ELIAMEP
Source:
Vol. 20 No. 1: Proceedings of the Twentieth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 2025