'About a year before the breakdown I was having symptoms': sadness, pathology and the Australian newspaper media

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Media coverage of depression in Australia is analyzed and three primary discourses are explored: the psycho-social, the biomedical, and the administrative/managerial. These discourses present depression as beyond the scope of individual control, resulting in the portrayal of unhappiness as an individualized pathology requiring outside management.

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Popular media and 'excessive daytime sleepiness': a study of rhetorical authority in medical sociology

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The article examines the influence of magazines, newspapers and the Internet on public health beliefs and behaviors, using the emergence of problem sleepiness in the US as a medical condition. Discussion focuses on how norms and deviations in sleep parameters are presented by the media and how these are interpreted and adopted by the public.

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Media activism and Internet use by people with HIV/AIDS

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Research reveals specific organizational themes in World Wide Web sites created by people living with HIV/AIDS. These include autobiography, dissent, expertise, and self promotion. It is posited that a link exists between Internet usage by people with HIV/AIDS and AIDS media activism.

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