21st Century Media and Female Mental Health

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Beschreibung

This open access book examines the conversations around gendered mental health in contemporary Western media culture. While early 21st century-media was marked by a distinct focus on happiness, productivity and success, during the 2010s negative feelings and discussions around mental health have become increasingly common in that same media landscape. This book traces this turn to sadness in women¿s media culture and shows that it emerged indirectly as a result of a culture overtly focused on happiness. By tracing the coverage of mental health issues in magazines, among female celebrities, and on social media this book shows how an increasingly intimate media environment has made way for a profitable vulnerability, that takes the shape of marketable and brand-friendly mental illness awareness that strengthens the authenticity of those who embrace it. But at the same time sad girl cultures are proliferating on social media platforms, creating radically honest spaces where those who suffer get support, and more capacious ways of feeling bad are formed.
Using discourse analysis and digital ethnography to study contemporary representations of mental illness and sadness in Western popular media and social media, this book takes a feminist media studies approach to popular discourse, understanding the conversations happening around mental health in these sites to function as scripts for how to think about and experience mental illness and sadness

Über den Autor

Fredrika Thelandersson is Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Communication and Media at Lund University. She obtained her PhD from Rutgers University.

She has had chapters published in The International Encyclopedia of Gender, Media and Communication, and articles published in Feminist Media Studies and Capacious: Journal for Emerging Affect Inquiry.

Zusammenfassung

Examines the discourse around female mental health in 21st century media

Identifies two conflicting aspects of mental illness awareness, profitable vulnerability and sad girl culture

Takes a feminist media studies approach to examine mental health in magazines and on social media

This open access book charts a brief history of gendered madness

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction.- 2. Magazines: Relatability and Seriousness in Cosmopolitan and Teen Vogue.- 3. Celebrities: Intimacy, ordinariness, and self-transformation in the health narratives of Demi Lovato and Selena Gomez.- 4. Social Media Sadness: Sad Girls and the Public Display of Vulnerability.- 5. Conclusion.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2022
Fachbereich:	Kommunikationswissenschaften
Genre:	Medienwissenschaften , Recht , Sozialwissenschaften , Wirtschaft
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	xiii 224 S. 9 s/w Illustr. 224 p. 9 illus.
ISBN-13:	9783031167584
ISBN-10:	3031167589
Sprache:	Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage:	Paperback
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Thelandersson, Fredrika
Auflage:	1st ed. 2023
Hersteller:	Springer International Publishing Springer International Publishing AG
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, D-69121 Heidelberg, juergen.hartmann@springer.com
Maße:	210 x 148 x 14 mm
Von/Mit:	Fredrika Thelandersson
Erscheinungsdatum:	23.10.2022
Gewicht:	0,316 kg

Artikel-ID: 123015177