'Schizophrenia' as a metaphor in Greek newspaper websites

Christina Athanasopoulou, Maritta Välimäki

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Sammanfattning

Often, newspapers use the term 'schizophrenia' as a metaphor with negative connotations. The use of the term in Greek newspapers, has never been investigated. The aim of this study is to examine how the term 'schizophrenia' is used in Greek newspaper websites. For 2014, 'To Vima', 'Kathimerini', and 'Eleftherotypia', were the most popular newspaper websites. By searching the term 'schizophrenia' in Greek, the first fifty results were collected from the three websites (N=150). Deductive content analysis was applied. Out of the included articles (N=140), the majority were news (n=39, 28%), while more than a third (n=48, 34%) reported schizophrenia as a metaphor. The metaphoric use of 'schizophrenia' indicated predominately incoherence/contradiction/split (n=43, 90%). Monitoring how schizophrenia is presented within popular media is crucial, since it could influence public perceptions regarding the disorder. Continual use of schizophrenia as a metaphor could contribute to maintaining the stigma attached to mental illness.

Originalspråkengelska
Titel på värdpublikationIntegrating Information Technology and Management for Quality of Care
Antal sidor4
FörlagIOS PRESS
Utgivningsdatum2014
Sidor275-278
ISBN (tryckt)9781614994220
DOI
StatusPublicerad - 2014
Externt publiceradJa
MoE-publikationstypA4 Artikel i en konferenspublikation
Evenemang12th International Conference on Informatics, Management, and Technology in Healthcare, ICIMTH 2014 - Athens, Grekland
Varaktighet: 10 juli 201413 juli 2014

Publikationsserier

NamnStudies in Health Technology and Informatics
Volym202
ISSN (tryckt)0926-9630
ISSN (elektroniskt)1879-8365

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