Geonews: timely geoscience educational YouTube videos about recent geologic events

Wang, Ning; Clowdus, Zachary; Sealander, Alessandra; Stern, Robert

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gc-5-125-2022

Articles | Volume 5, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/gc-5-125-2022

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https://doi.org/10.5194/gc-5-125-2022

© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 5, issue 2

Research article

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03 May 2022

Research article |

| 03 May 2022

Geonews: timely geoscience educational YouTube videos about recent geologic events

Ning Wang, Zachary Clowdus, Alessandra Sealander, and Robert Stern

Data sets

2018 and 2020 Geonews Video.xlsx N. Wang https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.19687920.v3

Comparison.xlsx N. Wang https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.19687926.v2

GeonewsDataSet_2018_to_2020Geonews: Timely Geological Events Videos N. Wang, Z. Clowdus, A. Sealander, and R. Stern https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.19687911.v3

Short summary

Natural events like earthquakes provide an opportunity for geoscientists to communicate Earth science with the public. YouTube has a large number of users, but little is known about how YouTube videos on natural events engage and communicate geoscience to the public. Our results show that timely videos about geologic events in the news better engage younger and more diverse audiences to be interested in Earth science and stimulates more meaningful dialogues with certain YouTube users.