Young people themselves however perform a diversity of selfie practices that challenge the self-portrait as exposed narcissism. For young peopleexperiencing mental illness, selfies often make visible the invisibility of their confusing,ambivalent and distressing life experiences.Natalie Hendry...
Research has also explored the motivations for using social media as well as the perceived benefits of interacting on these platforms among individuals with mental illness. In the sections that follow (see Table 1 for a summary), we consider three potentially unique features of interacting and conn...
epidemiologists and policy makers in understanding and addressing communications on social media, but also to provide support for people suffering from mental illness. Here, we propose an approach to
Social media is a popular space for expressing users’ feelings1,2. Through diverse social media or online social health communities, users often are likely to present their mental problems or illness with anonymity3. Such online health communities can be a network for expressing sympathy by commun...
An analysis of media content in April 1993 found that two-thirds of items dealing with mental health issues forged a link between mental illness and violence. Using some of this material, the impact on the beliefs of an audience sample w... ...
which, in this case, would be spread via social media. Basically, a group of people starts showing symptoms when there’s no particular reason to do so after viewing someone else exhibiting the symptoms, or perhaps triggered by something, like an unusual smell or rumours of illness going arou...
social mediaBackground: Mental illness (MI), and particularly, bipolar disorder (BD), are highly stigmatized. However, it is unknown if this stigma is also represented on social media.Aims: Characterize Twitter-based stigma and social support messaging ("tweets") about mental health/illness (MH...
In western society, women are often sexualized. The effects are evident in Hollywood, films, television, magazines, and social media; even 18-year-old girls are opting for breast augmentation due to societal pressures. We also have yet to address the issues of violence against women and sexua...
Social Media Use 1. Introduction Almost two in five young Australians aged 16–24 years report symptoms of amental healthdisorder (ABS, 2022). University students in this age group report even higher rates ofpsychological distressand mental illness than young adults in the general population (Stall...
(France), as well as Canada’s Advanced Symbolics, for collecting and sampling the data. The team plans to apply social web mining and sentiment analysis methods to social media data to detect those who are at risk for mental illness. The data will be used to identify negative emotions ...