Perception, Negotiation, and Prediction for a Diversifying United States: Examining Online Media Responses to the U.S. 2020 Census

We analyzed 26 YouTube videos discussing the U.S. 2020 census to examine perception of racial diversification. We fit a structural topic model across comments (n = 61,000) producing 54 topics, of which we identified 4 representative themes, finding significant correlations between topics and with video-level covariates.