Framing of visual content shown on popular social media may affect viewers' attitudes to threatened species.

ABSTRACT: Content published on social media may affect user's attitudes toward wildlife species. We evaluated viewers' responses to videos published on a popular social medium, focusing particularly on how the content was framed (i.e., the way an issue is conveyed to transmit a certain meaning). We analyzed videos posted on YouTube that showed vultures interacting with livestock. The videos were negatively or positively framed, and we evaluated viewers' opinions of these birds through the comments posted. We also analyzed negatively framed videos of mammalian predators interacting with livestock, to evaluate whether comments on this content were similar to those on vultures. We found that the framing of the information influenced the tone of the comments. Videos showing farmers talking about their l

SUBMITTER: Ballejo F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8241864 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature