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Articles | Volume 5, issue 4
Articles | Volume 5, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/gc-5-363-2022
© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/gc-5-363-2022
© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 5, issue 4
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23 Nov 2022
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Exploring TikTok as a promising platform for geoscience communication

Emily E. Zawacki, Wendy Bohon, Scott Johnson, and Donna J. Charlevoix

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The first study exploring TikTok's potential for science/geoscience communication.
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To determine the best strategies for geoscience communication on TikTok, we created a TikTok account called Terra Explore. We produced 48 educational geoscience videos and evaluated each video’s performance. Our most-viewed videos received nearly all of their views from TikTok’s algorithmic recommendation feed, and the videos that received the most views were related to a recent newsworthy event (e.g., earthquake) or explained the geology of a recognizable area.
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