SOCI 310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Wanker, High Fidelity
9 Mar 2016
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Mental illness: language & content in news media coverage. Most international studies show media coverage of mental illness (and people with mental illness) tends to be negative. This can negatively influence public opinion, policy and subjective experience of people with mental illness. There is some evidence that the media can be a causal factor in the development of certain mental illnesses (e. g. , eating disorders) However, lack of research on the canadian media at a national level. The project presented today was commissioned and funded by the mhcc to address this gap. Aim: to systematically assess tone and content of articles about mental illness and people with mental illness in the media. Funded january 2010-april 2016 (with retrospective analysis to 2005) Involves systematically collecting, reading an coding news stories around mental illnessnewspapers (<20 of the most popular in canada) Each story read and coded by a r. a. for presence or absence of key variables.
