Abstract

AGUILAR-TELLO, Valeria  and  ANGULO-GIRALDO, Miguel. Scientific dissemination on Twitter during COVID 19. Rev. aportes de la comunicación [online]. 2022, n.32, pp.21-34. ISSN 2306-8671.

Abstract In the context of COVID19 scientific production on the subject increased by an average of more than 1.000 articles per month. The scientific dissemination of these issues through digital social networks also grew. The disseminators of scientific knowledge through networks such as Twitter have had to change their strategies during the pandemic. This quantitative, cross-sectional and bibliographic observatory-descriptive research measures the scope, activity and interactions that a sample of 10 science disseminators (5 men and 5 women) had during the first wave of COVID19 (May 2020). It is concluded that the presence of scientific disseminators on Twitter during the pandemic had an important scope to combat false news and report on various scientific topics. In addition, from a gender perspective, there is evidence of a gender gap between women and men who disseminate science

Keywords : Science popularization; science; social media; women scientists.

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