Depoliticising addiction: Who gets to speak in European press reporting, 1991–2011?

Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs

MichałBujalski¹ 

关键词: addiction concept;    addiction discourse;    alcohol;    drugs;    Finl;    Italy;    media;    Pol;    tobacco;   

DOI  :  10.1177/1455072517753558

学科分类：生物化学/生物物理

来源: Sage Journals

【 摘 要 】

Aims:The article presents an analysis of sources of information employed in mainstream print media reporting on addiction problems in Finland, Italy and Poland in the 1990s and 2000s.Method:A quantitative content analysis of frequency of different sources employed in articles in daily newspapers from Finland (N = 258), Italy (N = 296), and Poland (N = 212) from the years 1991, 1998 and 2011. Semantic units were coded in Atlas.ti. The societal spheres represented were identified using a common coding scheme broadly inspired by Boltanski and Thévenot’s typology of polities of worth. Transformations were identified in line with van Leeuwen’s framework for trends in discourse salience over time.Results:The study highlights different patterns of coverage of addictions in the three countries. Over time, increased salience is given to the individuals affected by addictions and experts who represent biomedical sciences. This process occurred with varying intensity and expressiveness in all countries under study.C...

【 授权许可】

CC BY