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dc.contributor.authorThorbjørnsrud, Kjersti
dc.contributor.authorBlehr Lånkan, Kjersti
dc.coverage.spatialNorwayen_US
dc.date.accessioned2022-09-16T11:59:06Z
dc.date.available2022-09-16T11:59:06Z
dc.date.created2022-07-01T11:10:02Z
dc.date.issued2022-03-11
dc.identifier.citationMedia, Culture and Society. 2022, 44 (5), 935-950.en_US
dc.identifier.issn0163-4437
dc.identifier.issn1460-3675
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11250/3018472
dc.description.abstractThis article investigates the boundary work of young people who disclose personal experiences of mental health illness and trauma in a reality TV series. The programme in focus features group therapy sessions led by a professional psychologist, supplemented by personal video diaries. Combining disclosure theory with media sociological perspectives, the article analyses how boundaries are drawn, negotiated or trespassed in the production process. Data is based on in-depth interviews with participants, supplemented with background interviews with the production team and therapist. A main finding is that participants’ experiences in retrospect vary greatly: from accounts of meaningful self-disclosure to regret, increased strain and flare up of illness. Participants with negative experiences highlighted a lack of control over their stories, alienating representations of themselves and guilt about revealing information about third parties. The article concludes that interventional ‘do-good TV’, which builds authority and rhetorical ethos by offering professional therapy to participants, calls for careful consideration of the often-opaque relations of power and instrumental interests involved in this production setting.en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesMedia, Culture and Society;Volume 44, Issue 5
dc.rightsNavngivelse 4.0 Internasjonal*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.no*
dc.subjectBoundary worken_US
dc.subjectLay participantsen_US
dc.subjectMental healthen_US
dc.subjectPrivacy ownershipen_US
dc.subjectReality TVen_US
dc.subjectSelf-disclosuresen_US
dc.subjectTV productionen_US
dc.title‘Someone should have looked after us’: the boundary work of mental health disclosure on TVen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.description.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.rights.holder© The Author(s) 2022en_US
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cristin.fulltextoriginal
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dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1177/01634437211069970
dc.identifier.cristin2036611
dc.source.journalMedia, Culture and Societyen_US
dc.source.volume44en_US
dc.source.issue5en_US
dc.source.pagenumber935-950en_US


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