2021
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph182111229
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YouTube Doctors Confronting COVID-19: Scientific–Medical Dissemination on YouTube during the Outbreak of the Coronavirus Crisis

Abstract: The coronavirus crisis has highlighted the consumption of social media and online video platforms in search of an alternative discourse to that provided by traditional media. The objective of this article is to find an approach to education and scientific dissemination on COVID-19 present in the Spanish context of YouTube, focusing on the content analysis of audiovisual texts generated by creators from the medical and biomedical fields. A methodological orientation was used for this based on the Grounded Theor… Show more

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“…Previous studies suggest that researchers could use TikTok to combat misinformation, promote health services, support public health initiatives, and increase adolescent health literacy (Baumel et al, 2021;MacKinnon et al, 2021). Similarly, medical professionals and researchers have communicated COVID-19 findings on YouTube to challenge misinformation, educate the public, and interact with their audience (Buitrago & Martín-García, 2021). Further research is needed to better understand how researchers can leverage social media to engage with young people.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Previous studies suggest that researchers could use TikTok to combat misinformation, promote health services, support public health initiatives, and increase adolescent health literacy (Baumel et al, 2021;MacKinnon et al, 2021). Similarly, medical professionals and researchers have communicated COVID-19 findings on YouTube to challenge misinformation, educate the public, and interact with their audience (Buitrago & Martín-García, 2021). Further research is needed to better understand how researchers can leverage social media to engage with young people.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…En la actualidad, abundan las investigaciones que abordan el papel que juega YouTube en la dieta mediática de las generaciones más jóvenes (Aran-Ramspott et al, 2018;Lange, 2014;Masanet et al, 2019, Pereira et al, 2018Pires et al, 2019;Renés-Arellano et al, 2020); y en el sentido de pertenencia a una comunidad (Cunningham y Craig, 2017, Pérez-Torres et al, 2018 que puede generarse a través de la plataformización (Nieborg y Poell, 2018). Partiendo de los canales con mayor número de seguidores, nos encontramos con numerosos estudios focalizados en creadores vinculados al social media entertainment (Cunningham y Craig, 2019); entre los que destacan sectores como el videojuego (Scolari y Fraticelli, 2019), la moda/belleza (Duffy y Hund, 2015) o los personality blogs (Buitrago y Martín-García, 2021). Asimismo, etiquetas como influencer y youtuber se utilizan mayoritariamente para describir a ese tipo de creadores de contenido, casi siempre dentro del universo juvenil (Berzosa, 2017), lo que ha generado prejuicios o consideraciones sesgadas alrededor de dichos términos en una parte de la ciudadanía.…”
Section: Youtube: Diversificación Temáticaunclassified
“…A partir de 2015 comenzaron a proliferar en la plataforma creadores de contenido alrededor de prácticamente todos los campos culturales y científicos existentes (Buitrago y Martín-García, 2021;Erviti y Stengler, 2016). Esta profusión de divulgadores de toda clase emerge con la popularización de YouTube como plataforma en la que buscar información de toda índole y consumirla en formato audiovisual.…”
Section: Youtube: La Divulgación Audiovisual Más Asentadaunclassified