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Research Summary: Affective publics in Arabic YouTube
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- Aziz Shuaib Ausi
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- 7 September 2026
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- 9 October 2026
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An analysis of 67,725 YouTube comments related to socio-political topics in Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Jordan, and Syria reveals a predominantly negative emotional register across the Arabic YouTube sphere. The study indicates the presence of a single regional 'affective public' rather than distinct national ones, characterized by similar negative sentiment and emotional profiles. While a shared emotional landscape exists, regional variations manifest through discourse focused on country-level political actors and shared historical traumas. Notably, Iraq is singularized by a heightened register of grief.
Why it matters
This research provides insights into the collective emotional disposition and online discourse patterns within a significant geopolitical region. Understanding the dominant negative sentiment and the formation of a singular regional 'affective public' is crucial for informing digital engagement strategies, public opinion analysis, and cross-cultural communication efforts.
Key insights
- Analysis of 67,725 YouTube comments concerning socio-political topics in Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Jordan, and Syria.
- A unified sentiment-and-emotion pipeline was used for data analysis.
- Results indicate a single regional 'affective public' rather than five separate national ones.
- Sentiment is overwhelmingly negative across all five country-oriented corpora.
- Country-level emotion profiles are structurally similar.
- Discourse is organized around country-level political actors and cross-border historical trauma figures.
- Grief appears to singularize Iraq from the other countries, indicating a regional variation within the shared emotional landscape.
Source
arXiv — Computers and Society — https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.03269
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