Introduction

Abstract

This chapter tries to locate the contributions of the edited volume into the broader field at the intersections of media and health. It draws the wider horizon of this field in terms of its interdisciplinarity, the stakeholders involved and the various perspectives and issues at stake. The field is much wider than health communication, but also deals with issues of the representation of health, food and nutrition, which are central to this book. Other major approaches deal with research on media production processes, stakeholder analyses in relation to health news production, distribution and consumption, and audience’s engagements with health news with links to citizen’s health news literacy, trust and power.