- Name: Whitney Schauer
- Group: Ending Mental Illness Stigma
- Link to group’s social media account:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Ending-Mental-Illness-Stigma/1511709462419052?ref=hl
Participation Log (my posts)
- Daily Challenge: Reflect on how you can combat the stigma around mental heath.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUaXFlANojQ
The purpose of this post was to present how the stigma of mental health is presented in the media. The act of awareness is one the key steps in creating engagement surrounding a topic. This video was presented in order to present the audience awareness and present the idea that mental illness is all around us.
- There are some many ways to help those with mental illness. Advancements in technology build a connection in doing so….http://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Smartphone-app-designed-to-help-those-with-mental-5858967.php
Finding new ways to engage with the stigma of mental illness is a means of working in the network culture. With the current network culture, there are many outlets that individuals can use in order to make connections in this culture and engage in the civic culture. The purpose of this post was to bring attention to the new ways in which individuals can take an active approach in engaging these issues. Our current network culture makes it easier to build these connections in the network sphere and create action amongst issue of mental illness.
- Everyone is a superhero. Here is an inside perspective on mental illness.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23a18HKYLW4
On our group page there were multiple posts in regards to presenting mental illness in non personal, from an outside perspective standpoint. The clip used above demonstrates a personal perspective of an individual dealing with mental illness. In our network it is important to make personal messages and share identity. This post works to create a personal perspective into the stigma.
- How much do you know? Test your knowledge
http://www.gotoquiz.com/test_your_mental_illness_knowledge
With all of the information and perspectives posted onto the group site, a quiz regarding knowledge on mental illness is an active way to get audience members to engage with the site as well engage with the issue itself.
- Daily Challenge: Art speaks without words. What is does this image say?
Art is an important way of communicating ideas and thought to audience members active in the network culture. Without words, art allows for personal receiving of the image and gaining of personal perspective. It allows for one to see mental illness in a new way by creating thought of what the message of the piece is sending.
- Mental Illness affects all. The famous actor Robin Williams, known for his role in Mrs. Doubtfire, is one of the faces who has battled this illness. The article below acknowledges his battle and presents the idea that mental illness is all around. This insightful piece gives light to this stigma an the need to bring connectedness.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/robin-williams-mental-illness_b_5688482.html
For this post I felt it was important to build the connection of a prominent figure in media with the stigma. The recent passing of Robin Williams dealing with a mental illness was a strategic way to allude how this illness affects all. In our media culture presenting such idea stimulates the network culture to gain awareness of the world around them as news brings forth these situations.
Group’s Emblem:
Poetics
In studying the network ecology I felt that was important to bring different platforms to this media form in order to engage audience members and create awareness regarding mental illness. Gaining participant is a man factor in creating civic engagement when presenting an issue to the network culture. My work was to present multi platform views in this regard in appealing to various interest in the network.
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