Social media and scientific research are complementary – YouTube and shrikes as a case study

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00216208:11310/17:10369024

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00114-017-1470-8" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00114-017-1470-8</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00114-017-1470-8" target="_blank" >10.1007/s00114-017-1470-8</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Social media and scientific research are complementary – YouTube and shrikes as a case study

Original language description

Fascination with animals and their behaviour is one the most prominent patterns persisting in all human cultures. During the last decades, however, technological development and public access to the Internet have increased the speed and the extent of information sharing at an unprecedented rate, in some cases even challenging the traditional methods used in science. In order to understand the extent of this influence, we focused on the behaviour of shrikes. Shrikes are an enigmatic group of songbirds with a unique behaviour of impaling prey. We employed an extensive Internet search on YouTube (YT), a very popular and increasingly important source of information worldwide, for videos recording shrikes. Our analyses revealed that the number of shrike videos on YT is strongly positively correlated with classical knowledge on shrikes from books and scientific articles. Our results also suggest that in some cases YT may provide an alternative source of information on shrike ecology and behaviour. YT video

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10619 - Biodiversity conservation

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Science of Nature

ISSN

0028-1042

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

104

Issue of the periodical within the volume

5-6

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

7

Pages from-to

1-7

UT code for WoS article

000403543000011

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85021851792