Media studies, Vol. 8 No. 16, 2017.
Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.20901/ms.8.16.3
Media Representation of Drug Addicts and Drug Addiction in the Croatian Daily Press
Ljiljana Kordić
; Drug Abuse Treatment Association „Vida“, Rijeka, Croatia
Hajrudin Hromadžić
orcid.org/0000-0002-2176-6465
; University of Rijeka, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Croatia
Jurica Karlić
; independent researcher, Croatia
Abstract
This article articulates and examines the problem of how to represent addicts and addiction in media content. The authors conduct a quantitative and qualitative content analysis of selected daily press in Croatia (Jutarnji list, Večernji list and 24 sata) from 2015 and a sub-analysis of the target period (Anti-addiction Month) serving to compare two different news cycles. The media coverage of the examined themes, the connotation of such media content and the approach to this issue are analysed. This article provides insight into how addiction, as well as drug addicts, is represented in the selected media, and the implications and consequences such representations carry with them, while exploring the questions such as why these types of representations are present, and whose interests are represented in such representations.
Keywords
drug addicts; drug addiction; media; representations; sensationalism
Hrčak ID:
192918
URI
Publication date:
20.12.2017.
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