SOCI 225 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Hpv Vaccines, Disease Mongering, Cervical Cancer
15 Dec 2016
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Ge, news corp, disney, viacom, time warner, & cbs. 232 media executives control the information diet of 277 million. Television, news, radio, movies, mergers, internet, blogs, etc. Critiques: simplified, individualized, & medicalized (cure-focused with simple solutions) Production: governments, professional organizations, and businesses influence. Representation: content of media messages, frameworks, themes, dominant discourses. Illness as carelessness: trying to convey individual responsibility for symptoms. Arising fear in people: very targeted public health campaigns against hiv. Illness as choice: do something yourself to prevent it. Maybe you did not do enough to prevent it. Books are forms of literature: theories of causation, ideas of responsibility, or choices made. Illness as despair: laughing clinics; recoveries from surgery; laughter is the best medicine. Individual approaches to increasing emotional wellbeing to prevent and (cid:272)ure disease. I(cid:374)di(cid:448)idualizi(cid:374)g e(cid:373)otio(cid:374)al state does(cid:374)(cid:859)t take i(cid:374)to (cid:272)o(cid:374)sideratio(cid:374) (cid:455)our context. Theories of causation, of responsibility within these discourses. How we understood cancer and aids through media representation.
