TY - JOUR

T1 - Gesundheitskommunikation navigieren

T2 - Effekte der Mediatisierung auf Verantwortung in komplexen Entscheidungsprozessen

AU - Nordtug, Maja

AU - Petersen, Line Nybro

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2024 Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH und Co KG. All rights reserved.

PY - 2024

Y1 - 2024

N2 - This article investigates the mediatization of responsibility in the context of health care decision-making and biological citizenship. The analyzes how Danish parents navigate the pervasiveness, polysemy, and media logic of health communication, and how the authority and legitimacy of certain types of health communication play into their sense of responsibility. The study consists of interviews with 18 Danish parents who were in the process of deciding or had recently decided on whether to give their child the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine. This study draws on mediatization theory, sociological theory of responsibility, and research on health communication to illustrate the media-centered conditions that shape parents’ decision-making processes. We find that the pervasiveness and polysemic nature of the information available about the vaccine creates an imperative to understand the information while parents also have to navigate the media logic regarding media’s motivation for presenting information about HPV vaccines in certain ways. As a consequence, parents’ decision-making responsibility as biological citizens is undergoing significant changes that place increasing responsibility on the parents in this study.

AB - This article investigates the mediatization of responsibility in the context of health care decision-making and biological citizenship. The analyzes how Danish parents navigate the pervasiveness, polysemy, and media logic of health communication, and how the authority and legitimacy of certain types of health communication play into their sense of responsibility. The study consists of interviews with 18 Danish parents who were in the process of deciding or had recently decided on whether to give their child the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine. This study draws on mediatization theory, sociological theory of responsibility, and research on health communication to illustrate the media-centered conditions that shape parents’ decision-making processes. We find that the pervasiveness and polysemic nature of the information available about the vaccine creates an imperative to understand the information while parents also have to navigate the media logic regarding media’s motivation for presenting information about HPV vaccines in certain ways. As a consequence, parents’ decision-making responsibility as biological citizens is undergoing significant changes that place increasing responsibility on the parents in this study.

KW - health communication

KW - Mediatization

KW - sociology of responsibility

KW - vaccination

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85198107802&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.5771/2192-4007-2024-1-238

DO - 10.5771/2192-4007-2024-1-238

M3 - Tidsskriftartikel

AN - SCOPUS:85198107802

VL - 13

SP - 237

EP - 260

JO - Studies in Communication and Media

JF - Studies in Communication and Media

SN - 2192-4007

IS - 2

ER -