Practical

Question 1

Aim

Answer 1

To see how many mental health is portrayed/ talked about across 2/4 newspapers i.e. Counting positive and negative words

Question 2

OT hypothesis

Answer 2

The sun will have higher number of negative words about mental health in articles than the guardian will land less positives

Question 3

Null hypothesis

Answer 3

There will be no significant difference in number of positive and negative words about mental health in articles than the gaurdian will. Any difference is due to chance.

Question 4

Method

Answer 4

4 articles (2 from the sun and 2 from the guardian)
We googled them looking on the specific websites looking for terms like ‘mental health’ ‘depression’ ‘schizo’ etc and got lots of articles
We filtered down to 4 looking for relevance, length how opinionated it was VS informative
Read through the articles and highlighted words which seemed important because they were positive or nagative- counted the occurance of each eg crazy
We then counted then up using the codes of positive and nagative words
We looked at how the words were used/ what context ie was a negative term being used in a quite or was it an actual negative mention etc
We got a second person to go through and do the same analysis to check for inter-rater reliability

Question 5

Design

Answer 5

Summative content analysis