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It's not necessarily to gain notoriety. But there is such a thing as copycat. So reporting about people committing shootings is more likely to cause more shooti
by Ygg2 14y ago
It's not necessarily to gain notoriety. But there is such a thing as copycat. So reporting about people committing shootings is more likely to cause more shootings. I remember an episode of Newswipe, where a psychologist urged media to:
a) keep the news of violence to local community only
b) do not glorify the attacker by negatively praising him (like a ninja, moved quickly...) or showing him in positions of power (brandishing guns or wearing clothes that hide his face)
c) telling how many people he killed.
Each time one of those news is broadcast, he added, they see a spike in violence. And it seems consistent with how humans regularly behave.
- justincormack 14y agoEvidence please, not just "consistency" and remembering a tv program.
- Ygg2 14y agoI didn't find much but here is some: * http://cad.sagepub.com/content/48/1/46 http://cad.sagepub.com/content/48/1/46 * http://books.google.rs/books?hl=en&lr=&id=3B4lTTZE58oC&oi=fnd&pg=PR9&dq=copycat+effect&ots=vfNvk73kTl&sig=1S0gp41Ne8E4SSFUDr9NW9HqI50&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false http://books.google.rs/books?hl=en&lr=&id=3B4lTTZE58... * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_contagion http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_contagion They are cited as references on this page: *http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copycat_crime http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copycat_crime As for other evidence, you'd need to look at crimes and if there is a large number of similar attempts of violence (not necessarily school, but overall mass shootings), grouped around highly prominent cases covered by media. That kind of research and evidence is sadly outside my scope. I'm not sure where you'd find sources, nor how to process them statistically correct.