| Autor: |
Jasmine C Foriest, Shravika Mittal, Eugenia Kim, Andrea Carmichael, Natalie Lennon, Steven A Sumner, Munmun De Choudhury |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Rok vydání: |
2024 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
JMIR Mental Health, Vol 11, p e49879 (2024) |
| Druh dokumentu: |
article |
| ISSN: |
2368-7959 |
| DOI: |
10.2196/49879 |
| Popis: |
BackgroundSuicide is a leading cause of death worldwide. Journalistic reporting guidelines were created to curb the impact of unsafe reporting; however, how suicide is framed in news reports may differ by important characteristics such as the circumstances and the decedent’s gender. ObjectiveThis study aimed to examine the degree to which news media reports of suicides are framed using stigmatized or glorified language and differences in such framing by gender and circumstance of suicide. MethodsWe analyzed 200 news articles regarding suicides and applied the validated Stigma of Suicide Scale to identify stigmatized and glorified language. We assessed linguistic similarity with 2 widely used metrics, cosine similarity and mutual information scores, using a machine learning–based large language model. ResultsNews reports of male suicides were framed more similarly to stigmatizing (P |
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