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Journalism and School Shootings in Finland 2007 -2008
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The article was published on 2010-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 23 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Journalism.read more
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Don’t Name Them, Don’t Show Them, But Report Everything Else: A Pragmatic Proposal for Denying Mass Killers the Attention They Seek and Deterring Future Offenders
Adam Lankford,Eric Madfis +1 more
TL;DR: The authors proposed that media organizations should no longer publish the names or photos of mass shooters (except during ongoing searches for escaped suspects), but report everything else about these crimes in as much detail as desired.
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A lever for improvement or a magnet for blame? press and political responses to international educational rankings in four eu countries
Ruth Dixon,Christiane Arndt,Manuel Mullers,Jarmo Vakkuri,Kristiina Engblom-Pelkkala,Christopher Hood +5 more
TL;DR: The authors compared the domestic press coverage of two educational rankings (the 2006 editions of the OECD’s Progress in Student Achievement (PISA) and the IEA's Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) in four European countries (Germany, Finland, France, and Britain) and found negative press coverage in all four countries.
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Media Coverage and Solidarity after Tragedies: The Reporting of School Shootings in Two Nations
TL;DR: In this paper, a cross-national comparison of the media coverage of school shootings can provide insight into how this coverage can affect communities, focusing on the reporting of the school shootings at Virginia Tech in the U.S. and Jokela and Kauhajoki in Finland.
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The Shift from High to Liquid Ideals Making Sense of Journalism and Its Change through a Multidimensional Model
TL;DR: The authors developed an analytic framework that elaborates the simple narrative from "high modern" to "liquid modern" journalism and discussed and problematized five key elements, namely, knowledge, audience, power, time, and ethics.
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Reality on circulation - School shootings, ritualised communication, and the dark side of the sacred
Johanna Sumiala,Minttu Tikka +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the dynamics of communication that emerged around the killer material on YouTube produced in four school shootings in the United States and in Finland: Columbine in 1999, Virginia Tech in 2007, Jokela in 2007 and Kauhajoki in 2008.
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Comparing Media Systems: three models of media and politics
Daniel C. Hallin,Paolo Mancini +1 more
TL;DR: Hallin and Mancini as discussed by the authors proposed a framework for comparative analysis of the relation between the media and the political system, based on a survey of media institutions in eighteen West European and North American democracies.
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Research in School Shootings
TL;DR: In this article, a typology for understanding the varieties of school shooting incidents, including rampages, mass murders, terrorist attacks, targeted attacks, and government shootings, is presented.
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The Columbine Legacy Rampage Shootings as Political Acts
TL;DR: The authors explored how the Columbine shootings on April 20, 1999, influenced subsequent school rampage shootings and examined how they were influenced by Columbine, and found that the post- Columbine school rampage shooters referred directly to Columbine as their inspiration.
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The Columbine Shootings and the Discourse of Fear
TL;DR: The authors examined part of the public presentations and news accounts of the "meanings of Columbine, with particular emphasis on violence, crime, youth, popular culture, surveillance, social control, and terrorism".