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A Multi-method Approach to Analyze Australia-China Geopolitical Discourse on YouTube

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  • Adeliyi, Oluwaseyi
  • Adesoba, Adeola

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In recent years, Australia-China relations started to decline, after Australia made an inquiry into the origins of COVID-19 (Peters et al. 2021). The involvement of the US in these activities and South China Sea tension has also led the tensions to grow more. Recent studies have analyzed political division on this topic on social media platforms such as Twitter (Stewart et al. 2018). In this paper, we utilize a multimethod analytical framework to analyze geopolitical discourse between Australia and China on YouTube. We analyze over 900 YouTube channels, 2 million comments, and 11,000 videos from July 2019 through December 2020. Our results show COVID-19 topic had an impact on the geopolitical discourse in the short term, but was suppressed by trade, and defense related topics in the long term. Finally, we studied suspicious channel activity and found Defense Flash News YouTube channel tried to grow their user engagement statistics inorganically.

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  • Adeliyi, Oluwaseyi & Adesoba, Adeola, 2022. "A Multi-method Approach to Analyze Australia-China Geopolitical Discourse on YouTube," OSF Preprints pe58w, Center for Open Science.
    • Handle: RePEc:osf:osfxxx:pe58w
    DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/pe58w
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