Social justice and social media: How medical schools display critical consciousness online.

ABSTRACT: Academic medical institutions have a pivotal role in addressing the inequalities faced by marginalized populations, especially by promoting values of social justice on online platforms that not only reach the medical sphere, but also the broader public. Central to this transformative agenda is the framework of critical consciousness (CC), which compels individuals to develop an acute awareness of societal inequalities and power dynamics and act as agents of change against inequalities across society. To investigate if and how medical schools use X (formerly Twitter) to display CC, tweets from March 22 - June 22, 2023 from all available Canadian medical school Twitter accounts were obtained and deductively coded. First, a content analysis was performed to collate and categorize tweets relat

SUBMITTER: Yilmaz E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12331073 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature