Backup mandate Research Council: Broadcasting the Culture War - Audience Engagement in YouTube’s Alternative Community Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Scholars alerted that algorithmic recommendations amplify extreme
political content disseminated within a network of alternative influencers. Recently, this radicalization framework was critiqued for being too technology-centric, and a more thorough empirical account of audience engagement was called for. The proposed PhD-project intends to present such an account, ...