LEADER 04245nam 22006615 450 001 9910623994703321 005 20231214145417.0 010 $a3-031-16756-2 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-16756-0 035 $a(CKB)5600000000511160 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-16756-0 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/93988 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7120737 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7120737 035 $a(OCoLC)1351746661 035 $a(EXLCZ)995600000000511160 100 $a20240605d2022 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$a21st Century Media and Female Mental Health $eProfitable Vulnerability and Sad Girl Culture /$fby Fredrika Thelandersson 205 $a1st ed. 2023. 210 $aCham$cSpringer Nature$d2023 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2023. 215 $a1 online resource (XIII, 224 p. 9 illus.) 311 $a3-031-16755-4 327 $a1. Introduction -- 2. Magazines: Relatability and Seriousness in Cosmopolitan and Teen Vogue -- 3. Celebrities: Intimacy, ordinariness, and self-transformation in the health narratives of Demi Lovato and Selena Gomez -- 4. Social Media Sadness: Sad Girls and the Public Display of Vulnerability -- 5. Conclusion. 330 $aThis open access book examines the conversations around gendered mental health in contemporary Western media culture. While early 21st century-media was marked by a distinct focus on happiness, productivity and success, during the 2010s negative feelings and discussions around mental health have become increasingly common in that same media landscape. This book traces this turn to sadness in women?s media culture and shows that it emerged indirectly as a result of a culture overtly focused on happiness. By tracing the coverage of mental health issues in magazines, among female celebrities, and on social media this book shows how an increasingly intimate media environment has made way for a profitable vulnerability, that takes the shape of marketable and brand-friendly mental illness awareness that strengthens the authenticity of those who embrace it. But at the same time sad girl cultures are proliferating on social media platforms, creating radically honest spaces where those who suffer get support, and more capacious ways of feeling bad are formed. Using discourse analysis and digital ethnography to study contemporary representations of mental illness and sadness in Western popular media and social media, this book takes a feminist media studies approach to popular discourse, understanding the conversations happening around mental health in these sites to function as scripts for how to think about and experience mental illness and sadness. Fredrika Thelandersson is Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Communication and Media at Lund University. She obtained her PhD from Rutgers University. She has had chapters published in The International Encyclopedia of Gender, Media and Communication, and articles published in Feminist Media Studies and Capacious: Journal for Emerging Affect Inquiry. 606 $aGender identity in mass media 606 $aSex 606 $aCommunication in medicine 606 $aMedia and Gender 606 $aGender Studies 606 $aHealth Communication 610 $aMedia and mental health 610 $aFeminist media studies 610 $adiscourse analysis 610 $aRepresentations of mental illness 610 $apostfeminist media 610 $apopular feminism 615 0$aGender identity in mass media. 615 0$aSex. 615 0$aCommunication in medicine. 615 14$aMedia and Gender. 615 24$aGender Studies. 615 24$aHealth Communication. 676 $a302.23 676 $a305.3 700 $aThelandersson$b Fredrika$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01271888 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910623994703321 996 $a21st Century Media and Female Mental Health$92996184 997 $aUNINA