YouTube as a Source of Information About Air Pollution

IF 1.6 4区环境科学与生态学 Q4 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Aerosol Science and Engineering Pub Date : 2022-02-16 DOI:10.1007/s41810-022-00129-6

Erhan Kaya, Musa Şahin

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Abstract

YouTube is an important source of information on air pollution. The information presented on youtube may be of high or low quality. In our study, we aimed to evaluate the YouTube videos for their qualities and compare their view numbers, likes, and comment numbers according to high- and low-quality groups. In our study, 32.2% of all videos were in the high-quality group, 15.1% in the intermediate quality group, and 52.7% in the low-quality group according to Global Quality Scale (GQS). Significant differences were found among the quality groups in video length (p < 0.001), dislikes/day (p = 0.043), comment/day (p = 0.005), DISCERN (DS) tool scores (p < 0.001). The duration and DS tool scores were higher in high-quality videos; dislikes/day and comment/day averages were higher in low-quality videos. On the other hand, there was no significant difference in views, views/day, likes/day, likes ratios among quality groups. On this important matter, low-quality videos are abundant. Considering that there are lots of nonreliable information on YouTube, it is needed that individuals should be referred to reliable videos on air pollution.

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作为空气污染信息来源的YouTube

YouTube是空气污染信息的重要来源。在youtube上呈现的信息可能是高质量的，也可能是低质量的。在我们的研究中，我们旨在评估YouTube视频的质量，并根据高质量组和低质量组比较它们的观看次数、点赞次数和评论次数。在我们的研究中，根据全球质量量表（GQS），32.2%的视频属于高质量组，15.1%属于中等质量组，52.7%属于低质量组。在视频长度方面，质量组之间存在显著差异（p <； 0.001），不喜欢/天（p = 0.043），评论/天（p = 0.005），DISCERN（DS）工具得分（p <； 0.001）。高质量视频的持续时间和DS工具得分较高；在低质量视频中，不喜欢/天和评论/天的平均值更高。另一方面，质量组的浏览量、浏览量/天、点赞数/天、赞数比没有显著差异。在这个重要问题上，低质量的视频比比皆是。考虑到YouTube上有很多不负责任的信息，有必要让个人参考关于空气污染的可靠视频。

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Aerosol Science and Engineering Environmental Science-Pollution

CiteScore

3.00

自引率

7.10%

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