基本説明
Contributes to the current academic discussion on school shootings by analysing this phenomenon in a broader context of mediatization in contemporary social and cultural life.
Full Description
School shootings have raised considerable interest among scholars as a global (media) cultural phenomenon and have increased specifically in the 1990s developing into a seeming cultural epidemic. This book contributes to the current academic discussion on school shootings by analysing this phenomenon in a broader context of mediatization in contemporary social and cultural life. Mediatized logic has the power to influence us as individuals communicating about the shootings and experiencing the shootings as victimizers, victims, witnesses or bystanders. In three sections, this book explores shootings from different, yet interconnected, perspectives: (1) a theoretical focus on media and school shootings within various sociological and cultural dimensions, specifically how contemporary media transform school shootings into mediatized violence; (2) a focus on the practices of mediatization, with emphasis on mediated coverage of school shootings and its political, cultural, social and ethical implications; and (3) an examination of the audiences, victims and witnesses of school shootings as well as organizations which try to manage these public crimes of significant media interest.
Contents
Introduction: School Shootings as Mediatized Violence Glenn W. Muschert and Johanna Sumiala Section 1: Framing the Event: Societal and (Media) Cultural Perspectives School Shootings and Cultivation Analysis: On Confrontational Media Rhetoric and the History of Research on The Politics of Media Violence, Andy Ruddock
Media Dynamics in School Shootings: A Socialization Theory Perspective, Nils Bockler, Thorsten Seeger, and Peter Sitzer
A Futile Game: On the Prevalence and Possible Causes of the Misguided Speculation about the Role of Violent Video Games as a Substantial Independent Causal Factor in Mass School Shootings, Christopher Ferguson and James Ivory
Media Consumption in German School Shooters, Rebecca Bondu and Herbert Scheithauer
Making Headlines: A Quarter Century of the Media's Characterization of Canadian School Shootings, Stephanie Howells
Section 2: Covering the Events: Perspectives of and for Journalistic Practice, Amok Visuals.
Analyzing Visual Media Coverage of Amok School Shootings: A Novel Iconographic Approach, Marion G. Muller, Ognyan Seizov, and Florian Wiencek
U.S. and Finnish Journalists: A Comparative Study of Role, Responsibilities, and Emotional Reactions to School Shootings, Klas Backholm, Marguerite Moritz, and Kaj Bjorkqvist
Vital Explanations or Harmful Gossip? Finnish Journalists' Reflections on Reporting the Interpretations of Two School Shootings Jari Valiverronen, Kari Koljonen, and Pentti Raittila
Deciphering Rampage: Assigning Blame to Youth Offenders in News Coverage of School Shootings, Glenn W. Muschert and Leah Janssen
Section 3: Witnessing and Consuming School Shooting Events Media Participation of School Shooters and Their Fans: Navigating Between Self-Distinction and Imitation to Achieve Individuation, Nathalie Paton
The Remote Is Controlled by the Monster: Issues of Mediatized Violence and School Shootings, Jacklyn Schildkraut
The Mediatized Victim: School Shootings as Distant Suffering, Salli Hakala
Collective Coping through Networked Narratives: YouTube Responses to the Virginia Tech Shooting, Simon Lindgren
School Shootings, Crises of Masculinities, and Media Spectacle: Some Critical Perspectives, Douglas Kellner
Concluding Reflections Afterword: Mediatization and School Shootings: Is Mediatization a Useful Concept for Informing Practice in Journalism? Gavin Rees
Afterword: Media and School Shootings: A Sociological View, Ralph Larkin
