Tag: YouTube

Communities and Social Media

Finding Mental Well-being and Community Through Nature YouTube Channels

Jessica Rhodes16 Comments

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.

Communities and Social Media

Health and Fitness Influencers Spreading Misinformation within their Community

Amy Nguyen8 Comments

Introduction While health and fitness influencers on Instagram and YouTube promote active lifestyles and an ideal body standard through their online self-presentation, they are also accountable for spreading false information within their online communities. This paper is going to explore the online fitness community, the impacts of fitness influencers, and how misinformation on diets and workout plans spread within their community. Social media’s impact Social media has given people Read more […]

Communities and Social Media

The literary vlogger and diminishing community practices.

Cody Pfitzner6 Comments

The-literary-vlogger-and-diminishing-community-practices-Cody-PfitznerDownload AbstractThis paper considers how belonging in the BookTubers community can be viewed as a way for humanity to maintain connections through shared interests. It is argued that the culture within this discourse has negative impacts on community as a whole as barriers and opportunities for exclusion are created for its members. Reflection of the personal conduct of members is considered in line with other technological Read more […]