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The search for accountability in the unending era of American mass shootings is turning to novel legal tactics against the parents who raise shooters, the gun manufacturers that appeal to them and ...
Mass shooting contagion theory is the studied nature and effect of media coverage of mass shootings and the potential increase of mimicked events. [1] Academic study of this theory has grown in recent years due to the nature of mass shooting events, frequency of references to previous rampage shooters as inspiration and the acquisition of fame using violence, particularly in the United States. [2]
Two-step flow theory opposes the notion that the effect of mass media is a direct one. Instead, it suggests that the information and ideas coming from the mass media go to people named the opinion leaders. Opinion leaders gather the information they hear, make sense of it, and develop a narrative that they would like to push.
In journalism and mass media, sensationalism is a type of editorial tactic. Events and topics in news stories are selected and worded to excite the greatest number of readers and viewers. This style of news reporting encourages biased or emotionally loaded impressions of events rather than neutrality , and may cause a manipulation to the truth ...
Most mass shooting statistics do not include ones undertaken by foreign terrorists. The term "mass killings" has a similar definition. Akron shooting: At least 1 dead, ...
A day after another deadly mass shooting in the United States and with no gun control legislation in sight, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said that “there is a plague upon this nation.”
Mass communication is the process of imparting and exchanging information through mass media to large population segments. It utilizes various forms of media as technology has made the dissemination of information more efficient. Primary examples of platforms utilized and examined include journalism and advertising.
Newly released transcripts offer a real-time window into the frantic and chaotic moments before officers arrived at the scattered scene of a mass shooting in Whittier on May 30 that killed four ...