Analysis of Information about Mental Illness in Audiovisual Media
Abstract
The image that usually projects of the mentally ill is based on the historical ignorance of this illness and on the social construction of a stereotype comes to become a stigma. The media have reproduced this negative vision, especially the audiovisual fiction, but also the news. The dramatism used in television before some events in which are involved mentally ills feed s superficial messages. Nevertheless, this is changing thanks to the awareness of journalists, the books of style and recommendations, and specially to the proactive role of the associations of patients and administrations. An analysis of a channel, Canal Sur TV, serves to establish levels of stereotype and look for relationships between the event promoter and the broadcast news.
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