Influência de conteúdos digitais do Instagram na intenção de prática de atividade física em tempos de pandemia

• Autor(a) principal: Borges, Mariana Isabel Oliveira
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/19179
• topic: Comércio eletrónico; Influenciadores digitais; Pandemia de COVID-19; Instagram; Prática de atividade física; E-commerce; Digital influencers; COVID-19 pandemic; Instagram; Practice of physical activit; Gestão

Along with technological and Internet developments, marketing communication has faced a major transformation. Social networks have played a very important role in the digital marketing strategies of brands and, with them, also digital influencers. These have become a source of communication of extreme importance, gaining a position of ambassadors and influencers for product and services, as well as for healthy lifestyle and behavior. Resulting from the lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic, companies had to readapt to maintain their business, which boosted e-commerce, namely in gyms and other companies related to physical activities. There was an increase in the practice of physical activity during the lockdown and several influencers shared content on Instagram related to physical activity, promoting this practice, often due to its fundamental role in physical and mental health. Thus, this research work aims at identifing, based on the perceptions of followers, how the contents of digital influencers contributed to the increase of the practice of physical activity of their followers on Instagram, during the period of lockdown between March 2020 and June 2021. The research is based on the Grounded Theory, through qualitative analysis of data collected by interview, to 13 respondents. From the analysis of the results of the study, we have been able to conclude that digital content influences the practice of physical activity of its followers. This is to say that followers used the digital content shared by influencers on Instagram, following their advice, to preserve their health and well-being, in the context of the pandemic.