Authors : Roshaliza Mohd Rosli and Anitawati Mohd Lokman
Abstract: Social media has been said to provide new ways for extremist to communicate and reach audiences across the world. There are many videos related to extremist available via. YouTube which can be referred as 'extremist YouTube video's. The production of the videos are said to be carefully crafted with visual markers that make them easily being identified and capable to psychologically move the viewers. However, little investigation has been done to investigate how the visual markers affect psychological feeling or emotion of the viewers. This study will report on synthesis of past literature on extremist videos and a survey using some set of common visual markers to 151 respondents aged 15-45 years to assess how it affects their emotional responses. Findings show most respondents agree that they would be able to identify the videos through certain visual markers. It is also agreeable that upon viewing they might get emotional and those videos should be removed considering the repercussion from having exposed to it. Nonetheless, there are handful of them who still want to revisit the video which sends an alarming call to action for the widespread of the videos to be curbed. The finding is far from giving definite solution, however, provides insights to policy makers and other stakeholders to the rising concern of the need to have control mechanism for prevention and risk management.
Roshaliza Mohd Rosli and Anitawati Mohd Lokman, 2018. Prelude to Visual Markers and User Experience on Extremist Youtube Videos. Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 13: 9302-9307.