scholarly journals Mass Media Representations of Mental Health/Illness. (i) A study of media content; (ii) audience reception study.

1994 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 567-568
Author(s):  
David Walker
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Audience Reception ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Reception Study

Do Materialistic Adolescents Ruminate More About Their Social Media Posts?

2020 ◽  
pp. 0044118X2098417
Author(s):  
Keeley Hynes ◽  
Daniel G. Lannin ◽  
Jeremy B. Kanter ◽  
Ani Yazedjian ◽  
Margaret M. Nauta
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Mental Distress ◽  
External Validation ◽  
Value Orientation ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Over Time

Previous research suggests that ruminating on social media content is associated with greater mental distress (Yang et al., 2018). This study examined whether materialistic value orientation (MVO)—prioritizing values and goals related to consumerism, consumption, and social status—predicted social media rumination in a sample of diverse adolescents in a two-wave cross-lagged design. A cross-lagged analysis among 119 adolescents indicated that MVO at Wave 1 predicted greater social media rumination 4 months later at Wave 2, but social media rumination at Wave 1 did not predict MVO at Wave 2. Cross-lagged results suggested that MVO may lead to greater social media rumination over time for diverse adolescents. Adolescents with MVO could benefit from interventions to reduce the effects of their need for external validation and maladaptive rumination, as external validation and maladaptive rumination are linked to behaviors and thoughts that can be harmful to mental health.

scholarly journals The Meaning and Factors That Influence the Concept of Body Image: Systematic Review and Meta-Ethnography from the Perspectives of Adolescents

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 1140
Author(s):  
Glòria Tort-Nasarre ◽  
Mercè Pollina Pocallet ◽  
Eva Artigues-Barberà
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Systematic Review ◽  
Body Image ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Body Dissatisfaction ◽  
School Environment ◽  
Community Care ◽  
Self Management ◽  
Mental Health Nurses ◽  
Healthy Body

Community care nurses educate adolescents about body image, but their interventions appear to be ineffective. Body dissatisfaction predicts unhealthy behaviors among adolescents. This study aimed to understand the meanings and factors that influence the concept of body image through a systematic review and meta-ethnography of qualitative studies from the perspective of adolescents. Ten studies published from 2009–2019 were identified by a search of relevant systematic databases between September and December 2019. The review followed the seven steps of meta-ethnography developed by Noblit and Hare, including a line-of-argument. The synthesis revealed six themes: self-perception of body image; opinions of friends and colleagues; opinions of family; specific features of the school environment; expectations perceived across the mass-media; and strategies, practices, and self-management of body image. An explanatory model was developed that showed adolescents’ development of body image and the path towards its establishment. In conclusion, these results should be considered to implement strategies to promote a healthy body image in adolescents by community health and mental health nurses.

The American Ghetto, Gangster, and Respect on the Streets of Copenhagen: Media(tion)s between Structure and Street Culture

2021 ◽  
pp. 089124162110569
Author(s):  
Hakan Kalkan
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Cultural Factors ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Structural Factors ◽  
Perceived Similarity ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
Street Culture ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Relationship

“Street culture” is often considered a response to structural factors. However, the relationship between culture and structure has rarely been empirically analyzed. This article analyzes the role of three media representations of American street culture and gangsters—two films and the music of a rap artist—in the street culture of a disadvantaged part of Copenhagen. Based on years of ethnographic fieldwork, this article demonstrates that these media representations are highly valuable to and influential among young men because of their perceived similarity between their intersectional structural positions and those represented in the media. Thus, the article illuminates the interaction between structural and cultural factors in street culture. It further offers a local explanation of the scarcely studied phenomenon of the influence of mass media on street culture, and a novel, media-based, local explanation of global similarities in different street cultures.

scholarly journals Mental Health, Mass Media and Stigma Reduction

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 52-53
Author(s):  
KD Upadhyaya
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Stigma Reduction

No abstract available.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/jpan.v2i2.9730 J Psychiatrists’ Association of Nepal Vol.2, No.2, 2013 52-53 

scholarly journals The Big Brother Naija TV Reality Show as Coordinate of Media Functions and Dysfunctions

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
pp. 61-72
Author(s):  
Bolu John Folayan ◽  
Olubunmi Ajibade ◽  
Olubunmi Dipo Adedoyin ◽  
Toyin Segun Onayinka ◽  
Toluwani Titilola Folayan
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Big Brother ◽  
Reality Show ◽  
South West ◽  
The Media ◽  
Basic Functions ◽  
The Mass Media

The mass media play at least five basic functions which include news dissemination, surveillance of the environment, correlation of the components of the society, entertainment and transmission of social heritage.  Sometimes, disruptions and impairments do occur in the performance of these roles and some of these basic functions become dysfunctions, which turn the media into purveyor of negative values. The present study investigates how popular the Nigerian TV reality show, Big Brother Naija (BBN), is perceived by its viewers. Three hundred heavy viewers of the programme were surveyed from Lagos and Ede, South-West Nigeria, and their opinions and attitudes were sought regarding; why they like or dislike the programme; the gratifications that those who like the programme derive and whether the BBN, as media content, is generally functional or dysfunctional to the society. Sixty-six per cent 66 (33.7%) of respondents like the programme because it entertains. Half of the respondents, 99(50.5%) dislike ‘immoral aspects’ of the programme. The viewers affirm that the eviction part of the programme was their highest form of gratification.  Most respondents, despite public outcry against the programme, consider the programme to be “functional”. Findings reinforce the postulation that TV viewers are not passive consumers of media contents.

scholarly journals Media economically oriented tecnologies in mass media activity

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olga Nikolaevna Kasperovich-Rynkevich
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Effective Mass ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Media Industry ◽  
Global Media ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
The Media ◽  
Industry Trends

This article explores cost-effective mass media technologies. The experience of the use of paid access to the media content of Belarus was studied, the author also made the forecast on its future functioning. The paper provides global media industry trends and focuses on the use of messagers to promote content and increase the target audience of mass media. The research used the methods of content analysis and a written survey. During the study the author revealed that the media economically oriented technologies help to make a profit through distribution of content and formation of a loyal mass media audience.

scholarly journals DICTION as a Tool for Studying the Mass Media

2014 ◽  
pp. 462-476 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Lance Holbert
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Practical Knowledge ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
Systematic Assessment ◽  
Message Tailoring ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Mass Media

This chapter offers a systematic assessment of DICTION’s ability to address a wide range of media content. Each of the media-related works in this volume reflects a unique mix of communication inputs, and DICTION proves itself able to generate valid and reliable insights on a diverse range of material. In addition, the chapter focuses on a series of challenges (e.g., Message Tailoring, Hypertext, Interactivity) and opportunities (e.g., big data) for DICTION in relation to the study of media content. The program and the researchers who utilize it need to continue to evolve with the changing media landscape in order to generate practical knowledge that is relevant to improving communication.

scholarly journals Knowledge Configuration about Ciletuh UNESCO Global Geopark in Mass Media

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Eli Jamilah Mihardja ◽  
Prima Mulyasari Agustini ◽  
Guson P Kuntarto
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Regional Development ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Development Data ◽  
The Mass Media ◽  
Sustainable Regional Development

This study intends to describe the discourse of the geopark in Indonesia in the Indonesian media. Media coverage is a form of knowledge in society, including about geopark in the context of sustainable regional development. Data was obtained based on analysis of media content (local and national) during 2019 and analyzed. by using sociology knowledge approach of discourse. As a result, the mass media, as a source of knowledge in society, should be able to play a greater role in providing understanding to audiences about the geopark and aspects of sustainable regional development.

Mass Communications and Nationalism : The Polities of Belonging and Exclusion in Contemporary Greece

Res Publica ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 271-280
Author(s):  
Roza Tsagarousianou
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Party System ◽  
Public Attitudes ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Communication Process ◽  
Moral Panics ◽  
Religious Groups ◽  
National Politics ◽  
Nationalist Discourse ◽  
The Cold War

This article focuses on the ways in which the prevalence of nationalist discourse in the communication process has affected political and cultural life in Greece after the end of the Cold War. It is argued that through the emergence of scientific nationalism, the enactment of public rituals, and the creation of moral panics based on media representations of ethnic/religious difference, the 'political' is simplified allowing no room for diversity and difference within the framework of national politics. The Greek mass media have been sustaining 'official' representations of 'Greece' as a nation under threat which have been crucial in the formation and maintenance of public attitudes regarding both ethno-religious minorities within Greece, and ethnic and religious groups in neighbouring countries and have undermined the formation and maintenance of public spaces (including the mass media) for representation and identity negotiation, independent from state institutions or the party system.

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