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.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 437-450 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| Journal | Issues in mental health nursing |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 14 Sept 2020 |
Keywords
- Health Promotion
- Humans
- Mental Disorders
- Mental Health
- Social Media
- Stereotyping
