As global attention to mental health issues increases, its media portrayal becomes increasingly important. This literature review explores the representation of mental health in the media. The study found that the media plays a key role in shaping the public’s views on mental health issues. Positive media reports can help increase public awareness, reduce stigma, and promote help-seeking behaviors and policy improvements. However, negative reports may deepen misunderstandings and prejudices, increase stigma, and hinder people from seeking help. Several topics including violence and threats have become common themes in media reports on mental health issues. In addition, the portrayal of mental health on social media is emphasized, which provides a platform for discussing mental health issues, but also brings challenges to information authenticity and privacy protection. Social media interactions can provide support for mental health issues, but negative comments and cyberbullying may exacerbate the problem. The significance of this literature review is to provide theoretical support for improving media coverage and formulating public strategies, calling on media practitioners to report mental health issues in a responsible manner to promote healthier public attitudes and more effective policy interventions.

AI has become a popular approach for increasing communication frequency and advancing online marketing. This emerging technology has shaped cognitive conceptions and decision-making behaviors, as it has been utilized by an increasing number of the public, especially those who purchase items on various social media platforms. Meanwhile, those messages with aggressive and hateful speech were magnified and then influenced the psychological mechanism and the way they make an online purchase decision. This article is presented as a conceptual short communication that develops a behavioral-economics mechanism framework to explain how the algorithmic amplification of hate speech distorts young users’ cognitive patterns, identity dynamics, and consumption behavior. Key mechanisms such as algorithmic filtering, cognitive-emotional bias, and identity-driven economic behavior have been identified. Based on this, this paper extracts three propositions to clarify the core mechanisms linking algorithmic hate speech and adolescent consumer behavior, and provides a comparative analysis using three representative social media platforms as case studies. This paper argues that the importance of this topic lies in its status as a crucial frontier across psychological perspectives, behavioral economics, and communication studies. By offering a structured perspective, this short communication highlights implications for platform governance, policymaking, and corporate risk management. This brief communication appeals to corresponding strategies for the governance of platforms, social policymakers, and companies to build a healthier, more rational, and sustainable digital economy.

The rapid popularization of social media accelerates the speed of information dissemination, and the ADHD community is discriminated against and stereotyped by the underground influence of media content quality. Ned Hallowell, as a key opinion leader in the field of ADHD, actively promotes the positive characteristics of ADHD. This article takes his social media content to explore the positive characteristics of ADHD. Research found that ADHD has unique potential in creativity, humor, and high enthusiasm. This article advocates ADHD as a resource rather than a barrier, encouraging individuals with ADHD to establish connections with their unique traits.

Despite growing China-Malaysia ties, how Malaysian newspapers portray China’s national image in the context of the 50th anniversary of diplomatic relations remains underexplored. This research study examines three questions: the distribution of coverage across national image dimensions, evaluative attitudes, and differences between two major newspapers, The Star and Sin Chew Daily. Using quantitative content analysis, 112 articles published in 2023 (49 from The Star, 63 from Sin Chew Daily) were analyzed. Results indicate that functional coverage was most prominent, followed by aesthetic and normative dimensions. The Star exhibited a higher proportion of positive evaluations, emphasizing normative and international cooperation themes, while Sin Chew Daily presented a more balanced profile with greater focus on aesthetic aspects and community-relevant concerns regarding Chinese investments. These research findings suggest that Malaysian newspapers shape China’s national image not only through evaluative reporting but also via selective dimensional emphasis, reflecting audience, editorial priorities, and socio-political context.