CHORUS is a constellation of methodological tools that track argument frames, shifts in opinion, language patterns, cultural stress points, and even silences across the articles published on Youth Ki Awaaz over the past 18 years. These articles are taken as signals of expression on issues ranging from caste, gender, work, and identity.
CHORUS carefully avoids imposing categories from the outside and instead follows how people themselves are working through the social and cultural questions of their time. YKA has always been good at getting young citizens to freely express themselves. CHORUS becomes the infrastructure for figuring out what all those expressions add up to.
A comprehensive analysis of how young Indians construct knowledge about gender-based violence through citizen writing on Youth Ki Awaaz. Uses structural topic modelling across 11,963 posts in the Gender category to identify eight distinct discourse patterns, from survivor testimonies and feminist critique to digital safety and menstrual health.
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CHORUS treats the Youth Ki Awaaz article archive as a corpus of civic expression, not just content. Each article is a signal of how a young person chose to articulate a concern, frame an argument, or process an experience. The framework reads these signals at scale while preserving the texture of individual expression.