Audiovisual science communication on TV and YouTube. How recipients understand and evaluate science videos

B Boy, HJ Bucher, K Christ - Frontiers in Communication, 2020 - frontiersin.org
With the emergence of the Internet, social media and video platforms are gaining
considerable influence on the traditional media landscape in general and on science …

Transformation of the media landscape: Infotainment versus expository narrations for communicating science in online videos

LS Davis, B León, MJ Bourk… - Public Understanding of …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Society is undergoing a transformation in the way people consume media: increasingly we
are using online on-demand videos, with the fastest growing segment of online videos about …

Profiles, challenges, and motivations of science YouTubers

RM Velho, G Barata - Frontiers in Communication, 2020 - frontiersin.org
This paper investigates the profiles, challenges, and motivations of science communicators
of the ScienceVlogs Brasil project—a Brazilian alliance of YouTube channels that …

YouTube doctors confronting COVID-19: scientific–medical dissemination on YouTube during the outbreak of the coronavirus crisis

Á Buitrago, A Martín-García - … of environmental research and public health, 2021 - mdpi.com
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 …

Comunicación para la salud a través de TikTok. Estudio de influencers de temática farmacéutica y conexión con su audiencia

La consolidación de TikTok como una plataforma orientada al mero entretenimiento no ha
limitado el empeño divulgativo de profesionales de muy diferentes ámbitos que han …

Storytelling in science film: Narrative engagement relates to greater knowledge, interest, and identification with science

EL Howell, SL Behrman, E Kirschner… - Science …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
To explore narrative engagement's impacts on science communication, we examine a
representative sample of US adults randomly assigned to watch one of the four short …

Influencers de ciencia en Twitch. Divulgación científica a través de vídeo-streaming en tiempos de COVID-19

Á Buitrago, LT Ortiz - Teknokultura: Revista de Cultura Digital y …, 2022 - dialnet.unirioja.es
En los últimos años, y en especial tras la crisis sanitaria del COVID-19, se ha incrementado
el consumo de plataformas de vídeo online como alternativa al consumo de medios …

Divergent Routes of Health Infotainment in Changing Public Health Attitudes: A GPT-2 Analysis of Users' Responses to Health Infotainment

C Wang, H Wang, Z Yang, S Ding - Journal of Health …, 2025 - Taylor & Francis
Infotainment is an effective and widely used way of spreading health information. However,
the specific mechanism of its effects remains unclear. This study analyzed 215,020 user …

Infotainment may increase engagement with science but it can decrease perceptions of seriousness

LS Davis, B León, MJ Bourk, L Zhu, W Finkler - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
We presented 867 participants with one of two videos about climate change that differed
only in terms of whether they had an infotainment or expository narration. They were …

[PDF][PDF] Communication for health through TikTok. Study of influencers in the pharmaceutical field and connection with their audience

R MARTÍNEZ-SANZ… - Revista …, 2023 - mediterranea-comunicacion.org
The consolidation of TikTok as a platform aimed at mere entertainment has not limited the
informative efforts of professionals from very different fields who have found an opportunity …