Building better conservation media for primates and people: A case study of orangutan rescue and rehabilitation YouTube videos

Abstract Conservation organizations rely on social/internet media platforms to raise awareness and fundraise. Social media is a double‐edged sword: it can be a wide‐reaching and effective tool for education and fundraising, but can also have counterproductive impacts on public views towards wildlife...

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Autores principales:	Cathryn A. Freund, Erin G. Heaning, Imani R. Mulrain, Jesse B. McCann, Andrea L. DiGiorgio
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Publicado:	Wiley 2021
Materias:	human–wildlife interaction machine learning online media orangutans rescue and rehabilitation Human ecology. Anthropogeography GF1-900 Ecology QH540-549.5
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:66c3df1b78fc4a088879176598773b1a2021-12-01T05:33:13ZBuilding better conservation media for primates and people: A case study of orangutan rescue and rehabilitation YouTube videos2575-831410.1002/pan3.10268https://doaj.org/article/66c3df1b78fc4a088879176598773b1a2021-12-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.10268https://doaj.org/toc/2575-8314Abstract Conservation organizations rely on social/internet media platforms to raise awareness and fundraise. Social media is a double‐edged sword: it can be a wide‐reaching and effective tool for education and fundraising, but can also have counterproductive impacts on public views towards wildlife and understanding of wildlife conservation. For example, depicting humans interacting with wildlife in media may increase video popularity, but animals shown in anthropogenic contexts are also viewed as appealing pets. We are interested in understanding whether this is true for social media posts (YouTube videos) by orangutan rescue and rehabilitation organizations, which rely on social media for fundraising and awareness raising. Our goal is to provide data and recommendations to guide these organizations in building media with positive conservation impact while minimizing potential negative effects. Using YouTube analytics and sentiment analysis of comments on 117 videos, we ask how viewer responses to videos vary with (a) the amount of human–orangutan interaction depicted, (b) the ages of the orangutans featured and (c) the mention of threats to orangutans. Videos with longer human–orangutan interaction time were viewed more, but comments on them were significantly more likely to be negative towards Indonesian/Malaysian people. Comments on orangutan rescue/rehabilitation videos were more likely to be categorized as negative for orangutan conservation compared to videos about orangutans generally, and within these, so were comments on videos featuring infant and juvenile orangutans. Based on our findings, we recommend that orangutan rescue and rehabilitation organizations feature adult and mixed age groups of orangutans rather than infants and juveniles, minimize the amount of human–orangutan interaction shown and talk about conservation threats to orangutans in their videos. We also recommend that, as a precaution, other primate rescue and rehabilitation groups also abide by these suggestions. A free Plain Language Summary can be found within the Supporting Information of this article.Cathryn A. FreundErin G. HeaningImani R. MulrainJesse B. McCannAndrea L. DiGiorgioWileyarticlehuman–wildlife interactionmachine learningonline mediaorangutansrescue and rehabilitationHuman ecology. AnthropogeographyGF1-900EcologyQH540-549.5ENPeople and Nature, Vol 3, Iss 6, Pp 1257-1271 (2021)
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topic	human–wildlife interaction machine learning online media orangutans rescue and rehabilitation Human ecology. Anthropogeography GF1-900 Ecology QH540-549.5
spellingShingle	human–wildlife interaction machine learning online media orangutans rescue and rehabilitation Human ecology. Anthropogeography GF1-900 Ecology QH540-549.5 Cathryn A. Freund Erin G. Heaning Imani R. Mulrain Jesse B. McCann Andrea L. DiGiorgio Building better conservation media for primates and people: A case study of orangutan rescue and rehabilitation YouTube videos
description	Abstract Conservation organizations rely on social/internet media platforms to raise awareness and fundraise. Social media is a double‐edged sword: it can be a wide‐reaching and effective tool for education and fundraising, but can also have counterproductive impacts on public views towards wildlife and understanding of wildlife conservation. For example, depicting humans interacting with wildlife in media may increase video popularity, but animals shown in anthropogenic contexts are also viewed as appealing pets. We are interested in understanding whether this is true for social media posts (YouTube videos) by orangutan rescue and rehabilitation organizations, which rely on social media for fundraising and awareness raising. Our goal is to provide data and recommendations to guide these organizations in building media with positive conservation impact while minimizing potential negative effects. Using YouTube analytics and sentiment analysis of comments on 117 videos, we ask how viewer responses to videos vary with (a) the amount of human–orangutan interaction depicted, (b) the ages of the orangutans featured and (c) the mention of threats to orangutans. Videos with longer human–orangutan interaction time were viewed more, but comments on them were significantly more likely to be negative towards Indonesian/Malaysian people. Comments on orangutan rescue/rehabilitation videos were more likely to be categorized as negative for orangutan conservation compared to videos about orangutans generally, and within these, so were comments on videos featuring infant and juvenile orangutans. Based on our findings, we recommend that orangutan rescue and rehabilitation organizations feature adult and mixed age groups of orangutans rather than infants and juveniles, minimize the amount of human–orangutan interaction shown and talk about conservation threats to orangutans in their videos. We also recommend that, as a precaution, other primate rescue and rehabilitation groups also abide by these suggestions. A free Plain Language Summary can be found within the Supporting Information of this article.
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Building better conservation media for primates and people: A case study of orangutan rescue and rehabilitation YouTube videos

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