Communities and Social Media

Finding Mental Well-being and Community Through Nature YouTube Channels

Finding Mental Well-being and Community Through Nature YouTube Channels is on the rise. The world has been sent reeling from the COVID-19 pandemic and a spree of lockdown restrictions which resulted in isolation from the natural world and local community. This paper explores how social media, and YouTube in particular, might offer a third space in which people might still reap the benefits of nature and community through a digital medium.