TY - JOUR
T1 - La variable de género en la difusión de contenidos científicos mediante Twitter/X
T2 - un análisis de divulgadores de Hispanoamérica y España durante el covid-19 (2020)
AU - Aguilar-Tello, Valeria
AU - Angulo-Giraldo, Miguel
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2024/10/31
Y1 - 2024/10/31
N2 - The digital age has brought with it new forms of communication and dissemination of information. Within the scientific field, the popularization of science has resorted to new social spaces to communicate its findings. However, although scientific production increased during the covid-19 pandemic, the existing gender gap in the social environment was aggravated in the scientific field. A mixed, descriptive-correlational and cross-sectional research was carried out, focused on the analysis of 13,165 publications of 17 scientific disseminators-men and women who are characterized as micro-influencers of the social network Twitter/X that were published between March and June 2020 (first wave of covid19). The main conclusions show that the women scientific communicators studied produce less of their own content than their male peers, in addition to having more disadvantaged metrics; Likewise, men and women present opposite metrics of comments and relevance. In the same way, at the beginning of the pandemic, when a man and a woman with the same number of followers published, if one of them acquired more favs or retweets, the other acquired more comments, and vice versa. Finally, it is highlighted that a gender approach is necessary that allows recognizing the difference in work between male and female scientists in science and in scientific dissemination itself.
AB - The digital age has brought with it new forms of communication and dissemination of information. Within the scientific field, the popularization of science has resorted to new social spaces to communicate its findings. However, although scientific production increased during the covid-19 pandemic, the existing gender gap in the social environment was aggravated in the scientific field. A mixed, descriptive-correlational and cross-sectional research was carried out, focused on the analysis of 13,165 publications of 17 scientific disseminators-men and women who are characterized as micro-influencers of the social network Twitter/X that were published between March and June 2020 (first wave of covid19). The main conclusions show that the women scientific communicators studied produce less of their own content than their male peers, in addition to having more disadvantaged metrics; Likewise, men and women present opposite metrics of comments and relevance. In the same way, at the beginning of the pandemic, when a man and a woman with the same number of followers published, if one of them acquired more favs or retweets, the other acquired more comments, and vice versa. Finally, it is highlighted that a gender approach is necessary that allows recognizing the difference in work between male and female scientists in science and in scientific dissemination itself.
KW - Twitter/X
KW - gender
KW - scientific content
KW - scientific divulgation
KW - social networks
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85208804127&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.21142/DES-1604-2024-0070
DO - 10.21142/DES-1604-2024-0070
M3 - Artículo
AN - SCOPUS:85208804127
SN - 2076-2674
VL - 16
JO - Desde el Sur
JF - Desde el Sur
IS - 4
M1 - e0070
ER -