Mediated addiction: The drug discourses of Hong Kong youth

Jones, R. H. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9426-727X (2005) Mediated addiction: The drug discourses of Hong Kong youth. Health, Risk & Society, 7 (1). pp. 25-45. ISSN 1369-8575 doi: 10.1080/13698570500042306

Abstract/Summary

This paper examines the ways young people in Hong Kong at different stages of involvement with illegal drugs respond to government produced anti-drug television commercials through a methodology which provided them with the technical skills and equipment to make their own short videos about drugs. An analysis of the videos they produced and their interaction while producing them reveals that participants with different drug-taking experiences have very different and often multiple ways of talking about drugs, and that these different ‘discourses’ and the ways they are deployed in different contexts affect how ‘at-risk’ they are for new or continued drug use and how they respond to anti-drug messages designed to mitigate this risk.

Item Type	Article
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/58281
Identification Number/DOI	10.1080/13698570500042306
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Interdisciplinary Research Centres (IDRCs) > Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism (CeLM) Arts, Humanities and Social Science > School of Literature and Languages > English Language and Applied Linguistics
Publisher	Routledge
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