Психични заболявания и психично болни в популярните медии и интернет
Representations of Mental Health Disorders and Persons with Mental Illness in the Popular Media and on the Internet

Summary/Abstract: This article is about the coverage of topics related to mental illness in publications from news media and other sources found by searching the Internet and one of the most popular media portals related to the daily newspaper 24 hours. Automated and semi-automated word processing methods were used to analyze the content of the texts. Logical and network models are considered, offering possible explanations for the ways the mentally ill and mental illnesses are presented in the media and for the influence representations exercise on the audience. Some persistent patterns leading to stigmatization and avoidance of the mentally ill are deeply ingrained, interconnected, and more difficult to break than one can assume if one simply takes them to be superficial. They have their own deep narrative logic and probably this is the reason why they are not significantly influenced by rational and expert argumentation challenging them.

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