Understanding Multilingual YouTube
Project 2024-25
Project Title: Understanding Multilingual YouTube
Project Title: Understanding Multilingual YouTube
Lab/Research Group: Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure
Lab/Research Group: Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure
We study the digital public sphere and build tools to make social media less awful.
Project Description
We're doing lots of research on how YouTube algorithms recommend different types of content in different languages. We'd love help from students who've got language skills (Portuguese, Hindi, Spanish, Russian) and can help us understand cultural context of certain types of videos that get recommended
Learning Objectives:
We'll be learning how to hand-code qualitative data, how to put together a codebook, how to formulate and test hypothesis through data collection and analysis.
Skills needed:
Language skills.
Competency with web browsers, web forms.
Diligence