Abstract
In modern society, depression has become an important public health problem, and online video as a new mediated way of life, provides patients with a broader space for self-expression. Patients achieve self-healing through the ailment narratives in online videos, and their sense of stigma is partially transformed in the process. This study focuses on this phenomenon, based on the data of the Chinese version of TikTok platform, attempts to explore the role of this narrative in patients’ realization of illness healing and transformation of their sense of shame through the research methods of rootedness theory, cyber ethnography, and semi-structured interviews, so as to enable the patients’ group to obtain a more tolerant space of existence. Using narrative therapy theory as a theoretical framework, this thesis analyzes the data of 30 depressed patients in detail, taking the externalization of the problem, the awakening of the self, and the construction of a new story as the idea, including the motivation of video release from concealment to publicity, the content of the affliction narrative from brokenness to reconstruction, and the attitude change from shame to confrontation. This thesis obtains first-hand data from patients’ perspectives through in-depth interviews with 15 of them, who vary in gender, age, degree of illness, and Internet experience. Exploring the importance of new media such as online videos in health communication provides a new perspective for a deeper understanding of online video narratives of patients with depression, which is of positive significance for improving the survival situation of patients.
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KEYWORDS: DEPRESSED PATIENTS,NETWORK VIDEO,AFFLICTION NARRATIVE,STIGMA
