Description
The first step to better understand the kind of video contents people are sharing and watching about North Korean defectors is to get familiar with the categories they belong to.
The different categories express the different levels of the discussion, the directions they want to follow and the way they may speak when relating to North Korean defectors. For instance a Reportage will be using a totally different tone from a piece of News and, of course, there will be two different points of view about the topic.
Among all the U.S. videos the hugest amount belongs to the News category, but the situation is completely different for Chinese videos where the most shared category is Movie extract. Again two different ways to relate to the topic and to take part to the discussion.
Protocol
Youtube.com.us is the source we used to analyze the U.S. videos; on the other hand Baidu videos and Bilibili provided data about Chinese videos. To deepen this specific field the query we used for each source was the same: North Korean defector. We set the time frame from 1 November 2016 to November 2017 in order to collect the most recent insights and to maintain a timing coherence with all the other steps composing the process.
To complete the dataset all the videos were manually labeled into the different categories and this process took into account all the descriptions, video contents and titles.
Data
Timestamp: 11/2016 - 11/2017
Data source: Youtube, Baidu Video,Bilibili
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The excel file is organized in information about ranking, publishing date, URL, title, description, topic, view, like, dislike, comments, category and user for each video. There are two folders: one for the U.S. videos analysis and the other for the Chinese part.