The senses and the social effects of information about health on TV: a reception study with patients of breast cancer

Authors

  • Allan de Gouvêa Pereira Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Programa de Pós-graduação em Comunicação. Juiz de Fora, MG, Brasil.
  • Iluska Maria da Silva Coutinho Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Programa de Pós-graduação em Comunicação. Juiz de Fora, MG, Brasil.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29397/reciis.v10i1.1002

Keywords:

Information, Cancer, Television, Senses, Reception.

Abstract

This paper results from a research project developed between 2012 and 2015 combining an analysis of hundreds of media products, interviews with health professionals and patients, and the focus on television coverage of cancer. Aiming to systematize the senses, impressions and perceptions of a group of patients (at different stages of treatment) and former patients who were diagnosed with breast cancer, the main purpose of the research was verifying the cancer’s meanings produced by the television, in a comparative perspective with cancer’s meanings for the patients. We selected as sample a group of women from an oncology hospital in Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, and we used techniques of non-participant observation and discussion group.

Author Biographies

Allan de Gouvêa Pereira, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Programa de Pós-graduação em Comunicação. Juiz de Fora, MG, Brasil.

Grupo de pesquisa

Iluska Maria da Silva Coutinho, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Programa de Pós-graduação em Comunicação. Juiz de Fora, MG, Brasil.

Grupo de pesquisa

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Published

2016-03-31

How to Cite

Pereira, A. de G., & Coutinho, I. M. da S. (2016). The senses and the social effects of information about health on TV: a reception study with patients of breast cancer. Revista Eletrônica De Comunicação, Informação & Inovação Em Saúde, 10(1). https://doi.org/10.29397/reciis.v10i1.1002

Issue

Vol. 10 No. 1 (2016)

Section

Original articles

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