Department of Psychology, University of Dallas, Irving, TX, United States.
Department of Philosophy, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary.
Pain. 2019 Feb;160(2):298-306. doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000001422.
Social representation theory provides a framework for studying how scientific knowledge affects common sense and communication through inquiries into everyday discourse. This qualitative study examined social representations of chronic pain from 4 sources: North American newspapers; "Chronic Illness Cat" memes from the social media web site, Pinterest; video blogs on YouTube; and from a 2014 film, Cake, and interviews and comments concerning it. Using thematic analysis, we first identified social representations found in our 4 sources and others found in 1 or 2 of them. Second, we analyzed the sources for their rhetorical intentions. Vlogs directly and memes indirectly were first-person accounts, self-authorizing statements of the truth of chronic pain, whereas newspaper articles and the film were third-person accounts of pain, the differences between these perspectives affecting what was said. We conclude that the medium shapes the message.
社会表征理论为研究科学知识如何通过对日常话语的探究影响常识和交流提供了一个框架。本定性研究从四个来源考察了慢性疼痛的社会表征：北美报纸；社交媒体网站 Pinterest 上的“慢性疾病猫”模因；YouTube 上的视频博客；以及 2014 年的电影《蛋糕》及其相关访谈和评论。使用主题分析，我们首先从我们的四个来源和其他一两个来源中确定了社会表征。其次，我们分析了这些来源的修辞意图。视频博客和模因是第一人称叙述，直接和间接地自我授权了慢性疼痛的真实性，而报纸文章和电影则是对疼痛的第三人称叙述，这些观点的差异影响了陈述的内容。我们的结论是，媒介塑造了信息。
