Loading...
Mental health discourses on Twitter during Mental Health Awareness Week
Makita, Meiko Mas-Bleda, Amalia Morris, Scott Thelwall, Mike
Makita, Meiko
Mas-Bleda, Amalia
Morris, Scott
Thelwall, Mike
Editors
Other contributors
Affiliation
Epub Date
Issue Date
2020-09-14
Submitted date
Alternative
Abstract
Promoting health-related campaigns on Twitter has increasingly become a world-wide choice to raise awareness and disseminate health information. Data retrieved from Twitter are now being used to explore how users express their views, attitudes and personal experiences of health-related issues. We focused on Twitter discourse reproduced during Mental Health Awareness Week 2017 by examining 1,200 tweets containing the keywords ‘mental health’, ‘mental illness’, ‘mental disorders’ and ‘#MHAW’. The analysis revealed ‘awareness and advocacy’, ‘stigmatization’, and ‘personal experience of mental health/illness’ as the central discourses within the sample. The article concludes with some recommendations for future research on digitally-mediated health communication.
Citation
Makita, M., Mas-Bleda, A., Morris, S. and Thelwall, M. (2020) Mental health discourses on Twitter during Mental Health Awareness Week, Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 42 (5), pp. 437-450, DOI: 10.1080/01612840.2020.1814914
Publisher
Journal
Research Unit
PubMed ID
PubMed Central ID
Embedded videos
Additional Links
Type
Journal article
Language
en
Description
This is an accepted manuscript of an article published by Taylor and Francis in Issues in Mental Health Nursing on 14/09/2020.
The accepted version of the publication may differ from the final published version.
Series/Report no.
ISSN
0161-2840