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Obesity in the new media: a content analysis of obesity videos on YouTube.
Health communication - 1 Jan 2012
Yoo Jina H, Kim Junghyun
Abstract excerpt
This study examines (1) how the topics of obesity are framed and (2) how obese persons are portrayed on YouTube video clips. The analysis of 417 obesity videos revealed that a newer medium like YouTube, similar to traditional media, appeared to assign responsibility and solutions for obesity mainly to individuals and their behaviors, although there was a tendency that some video categories have started to show...
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