[Commlist] Tripodos Call for papers: Media and Mental Health (Issue 52)

*Call for Papers: Media and Mental Health*
*Deadline for articles: 15/03/2022*

Publication: June 2022

*Guest Editors*
Prof. María Eugenia Fernández, Catholic University of Uruguay (Uruguay)
Prof. Gavin Adamson, Ryerson University (Canada)

It is estimated that 970 million people globally suffer from any mental 
health or substance use disorders (Statista, 2021). Actually, around the 
20% of the world children and adolescents have a mental health 
condition, which now could cause 1 in 5 years lived with disability 
(World Health Organization, 2021[2]). Already in 2019, among all 
diseases, depression was the second cause of global burden of disease 
and suicide was the second leading cause of death in young people aged 
15-29 (ISGlobal, 2021). At the same time, stigmatizing attitudes towards 
people living with a severe mental illness like schizophrenia worsened 
in the period from 1990 to 2012 (Schomerus et al, 2012).
  This global prevalence and situation is higher since the COVID-19 
pandemic outbreak (Nochaiwong et al., 2021). The circumstances 
surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic have increased the stress and anxiety 
in people (Winter and Lavis, 2022; Wang et al., 2021). Abrupt changes in 
daily habits, disconnection from nature and modifications of family 
roles sometimes resulted in high levels of stress that potentially led 
to anxiety, depression, and other mental health conditions with 
long-lasting impact (ISGlobal, 2021). In this context, media and social 
media played a crucial role in dissemination of information and in 
connecting people (Su et al., 2021). However, research highlights 
connections between mental health and viewing media coverage of the 
COVID-19 pandemic, suggesting the anxiety reflected on television, 
computer and smartphone was negative for psychological well-being 
(Holman et al., 2020[10]).
At the same time, fear of contagion and social restrictions brought 
isolation from society, and from an "other" who was perceived in some 
cases as a threat (Álvarez-Rementería Álvarez, Roman Etxebarrieta and 
Santamaria, 2021[11]). If the media representation of people affected by 
mental health disorders was already a challenge before COVID-19 —then, 
evidence suggested that media coverage of mental health disorders tended 
to focus on specific issues, such as violence or crime (Carmichael et 
al., 2019)—, the pandemic and the role of media during it also seemed to 
have fueled discriminations and social stigma, among several age groups 
and at a global level.

Because of these reasons, Tripodos 52 wants to focus the attention on 
research about these crucial issues, so we invite scholars that study 
mental health and media from interdisciplinary fields to submit a 
proposal. Suggested topics include but are not limited to:
• Media representation of mental health disorders.
• Media influence on mental health disorders.
• Media and Mental health awareness.
• Mental health consequences of the COVID-19 media coverage.
• Mental health consequences of the social media use during the COVID-19 
pandemic.
• Social media and mental health.
• The stigma of mental health and media.
• Communication, youth and adolescents, and mental health.
• Social media use and mental health in adolescents.
• Communication, gender, and mental health.
• Mental Health, quality of life and well-being.

*Submission*
Papers should be sent by March 15, 2022. In order to submit original 
papers, authors must be registered with the journal (www.tripodos.com 
<http://www.tripodos.com>) as authors. Following this step, authors must 
enter their user name and password, activated in the process of 
registering, and begin the submission process. In step 1, they must 
select the section “Monograph”.

Rules and instructions regarding the submission of originals can be 
downloaded at www.tripodos.com <http://www.tripodos.com>. For any 
queries, please contact the editorial team of the journal at 
(tripodos /at/ blanquerna.url.edu) <mailto:(tripodos /at/ blanquerna.url.edu)>. The 
issue will be entirely in English.
No payment from the authors will be required.


*About Tripodos*

Tripodos is an international scholarly journal published by the 
Blanquerna School of Communication and International Relations at Ramon 
Llull University. Since 1996, the pages of this biannual publication 
have offered a forum for debate and critical discussion regarding any 
discipline related to the world of communication: journalism, cinema, 
television, radio, advertising, public relations, the Internet, etc.
It is indexed in Scopus and in Web of Science (WoS) - Emerging Sources 
Citation Index (ESCI) database.
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