Análise da literacia científica dos utilizadores do YouTube™ no National Geographic™

Abstract

The development of collaborative platforms as well as the internet spread allowed the user to intervene and participate actively on the web. The amount and quality of available data on the web makes it possible for a new world not yet explored. Taking this into account, this work focused on analyzing a few interactions from YouTube users. In order to do that, we resorted to a chunk of data taken from the National Geographic Chanel on YouTube between January 2008 and April 2012. The qualitative research involved the analysis of content of 360 comments as well as the descriptive analysis of six videos on the WebQDA. The results obtained allowed to know the users’ stand related to anthropogenic climate change, as well as their levels of science literacy, and therefore pointing the way to future research.