Stigma: the representation of anorexia nervosa in UK newspaper Twitter feeds

Bowen, Matt; Lovell, Andy; Waller, Rhian

doi:10.1080/09638237.2020.1793128

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“…Headlines and photographs were not analysed in this study. The exclusion of photographs may have disproportionately reduced sensitivity of the study in identifying eating disorder stigma in comparison to other mental illnesses (Bowen et al ., 2020). The coding framework was, however, carefully designed, referencing a wide range of sources and the use of inductive coding to assess stigma in a wide range of mental illnesses, including eating disorders.…”

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Improvement for most, but not all: changes in newspaper coverage of mental illness from 2008 to 2019 in England

Hildersley

Potts

Anderson

et al. 2020

Epidemiol Psychiatr Sci

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Aims Time to Change, an anti-stigma programme in England, has worked to reduce stigma relating to mental illness in many facets of life. Newspaper reports are an important factor in shaping public attitudes towards mental illnesses, as well as working as a barometer reflecting public opinion. This study aims to assess the way that coverage of mental health topics and different mental illnesses has changed since 2008. Method Articles covering mental health in 18 different newspapers were retrieved using keyword searches on two randomly chosen days of each month in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2016 and 2019. A content analysis approach using a structured coding framework was used to extract information from the articles. Logistic regression models were used to estimate the change in odds of each hypothesised stigmatising or anti-stigmatising element occurring in 2019 compared to 2008 and 2016 with a Wald test to assess the overall significance of year as a predictor in the model. Further logistic regression models were used to assess the association between the diagnosis that an article was about and the odds that it was stigmatising, and whether this relationship is moderated by year of publication. Results A total of 6731 articles were analysed, and there was a significant increase in anti-stigmatising articles in 2019 compared to 2008 (OR 3.16 (2.60–3.84), p < 0.001) and 2016 (OR 1.40 (1.16–1.69), p < 0.001). Of the 5142 articles that specified a diagnosis, articles about schizophrenia were 6.37 times more likely to be stigmatising than articles about other diagnoses (OR 6.37 (3.05–13.29) p < 0.001), and there was evidence that the strength of this relationship significantly interacted with the year an article was published (p = 0.010). Articles about depression were significantly less likely to be stigmatising (OR 0.59 (0.69–0.85) p = 0.018) than those about other diagnoses, while there was no difference in coverage of eating disorders v. other diagnoses (OR 1.37 (0.67–2.80) p = 0.386); neither of these relationships showed an interaction with the year of publication. Conclusion Anti-stigma programmes should continue to work with newspapers to improve coverage of mental illness. However, interventions should consider providing specific guidance and promote awareness of rarer mental illnesses, such as schizophrenia, and evaluation should examine whether reductions in stigma extend to people with all mental illness diagnoses.

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confidence: 99%

Improvement for most, but not all: changes in newspaper coverage of mental illness from 2008 to 2019 in England

Hildersley

Potts

Anderson

et al. 2020

Epidemiol Psychiatr Sci

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“…For instance, reader attitudes become more negative after reading reports about an individual with a mental disorder committing an act of violence (McGinty et al, 2013;Wilson et al, 2016). (Bowen et al, 2022) Secondly, also in this case, there are verbs intending REPRESENTATION as a composition of smaller units, as the verbs be built and be constructed testify in the following examples ( 15) and ( 16):…”

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A corpus-assisted semantic profile of the noun representation in CAD and CADS studies on newspaper discourse

Del Fante

2024

JCaDS

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The abstract must not exceed 300 words (among other reasons, because the text box will not accommodate it) The existing literature on newspaper discourse from a CAD (Critical Discourse Analysis) or CADS (Corpus-assisted Discourse Studies) perspective is extensive and there is a large volume of published studies that mention the noun representation in their titles or who put the representation in the press as the main object of investigation. Generally, these works focus on the use of language to represent a social phenomenon like migration, Islam, Europe, homelessness, obesity, and many other events. However, except for some works, the explanation of what the act of representation means is often not directly and overtly addressed. However, the fact that the notion of representation is not often clearly defined in many works (generally for a matter of space) does not mean that the notion is taken for granted or the implications are not considered. For this reason, this paper investigates how the notion of representation is presented. On the basis that the meaning of an expression derives from its use in context, which is intended as all its manifestations through which the expression itself acquires its meaning, the aim of this work is to give a corpus-assisted discourse perspective on the use of the lexical item representation in the academic discourse focused on the news media.

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“…Moreover, it demonstrates how historically formed social assumptions about anorexia become commercialized and intertwined with artificial-intelligence logic. Furthermore, the majority of existing research studying anorexia representation in media has focused on Western European and North American countries and English-language media content (Bowen et al, 2022; Ging and Garvey, 2018; Holmes, 2021; Logrieco et al, 2021), with a few notable exceptions (e.g. Castro and Osório, 2012; Sun et al, 2020; Vellar, 2018).…”

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Self-representations of the experience of anorexia on YouTube: The joint influence of the explanatory model and the web platform

Mikhaylova

2022

New Media & Society

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This study analyzes the self-representations of Russian-speaking women with anorexia on YouTube. Using multimodal interaction analysis, the research focuses on how the explanatory model of anorexia and the representation platform influence the narratives produced by vloggers who have experienced or are experiencing anorexia. It is concluded that anorexia is mainly represented in these videos as a weight-related mental health disorder. Although the explanatory model of anorexia shapes self-representations on YouTube, the platform plays an even greater role in the construction of such narratives. This study’s findings fill gaps in the existing literature by revealing the joint structural influences that shape storytelling regarding the anorexia experience. The theoretical perspective utilized in this article could be further applied in research examining media representations of other mental health conditions.

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Stigma: the representation of anorexia nervosa in UK newspaper Twitter feeds

Cited by 9 publications

References 59 publications

Improvement for most, but not all: changes in newspaper coverage of mental illness from 2008 to 2019 in England

Improvement for most, but not all: changes in newspaper coverage of mental illness from 2008 to 2019 in England

A corpus-assisted semantic profile of the noun representation in CAD and CADS studies on newspaper discourse

Self-representations of the experience of anorexia on YouTube: The joint influence of the explanatory model and the web platform

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