IRIB and Addiction Prevention, Content Analysis of Shock Documentaries with an Emphasis on Addiction

Media has been a significant role to shape the thoughts, beliefs, values, culture and awareness. Today with the intelligent use of media, it is possible to introduce social issues, prevent and confrontation. Addiction is one of the most common social issues that trouble our country. Therefore, addiction prevention can play an important role in reducing social harm. According to its social responsibility, the national media has always sought to confront and fight against social harms, including addiction. The documentary "Shock" was among the programs that were produced and broadcasted on the third channel of national TV in order to deal with addiction. The present research was conducted with the aim of analyzing the performance of Shock documentary. The theoretical framework of this theory was based on theories of social responsibility, framing and Tannehill's health model. The research method, quantitative content analysis and data collection tools were reverse questionnaire. 8 programs in the period of 18 months from the beginning of 2019 to September of 2019 were selected purposely. The findings show: the type of attitude towards addiction is mainly patient-oriented and the approach of the program emphasizes primary prevention. The way of modeling about the prevention of addiction, introduction of risk factors, and industrial drugs have received more attention. Also, according to the results of this research, friends and therapeutic motivations were among the factors of tendency towards addiction.