Media And Mass Shootings

catastrophes such as this mass shooting at a distance, news media is the primary source of information, which therefore creates the audiences’ reality of the events that occur.(Wheeler 80) With this, the mass media has the control of what people are exposed to, and the choice to amplify awareness to what they choose as important. In an interview conducted with Sarah, an undergraduate student at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, she recalled her exposure to the news of the shooting: “The only reports

poster I am trying to satirize how the shooters of a mass shooting are treated by the media and the people; compared to how the victims are treated. Every time there is a mass shooting the media tries to profile the shooter, and provide details about his life and background. When these shootings happen the victims are forgotten and not even recognized. The victims and their families are the ones who have to suffer; not the shooter. When the media gives the shooters false attention it glorifies them

chose to read the article titled, Widespread media coverage contributing to rise in mass shootings, say psychologists, by Jess Staufenberg. In this article Jess elaborates on the idea proposed by psychologists that giving mass shooters the fame they desire in the media is contributing to their rise. Staufenberg begins by highlighting the reasons the media is being looked at as the root cause of the problem. Mass shootings are escalating as well as the mass coverage of them due to higher ratings and

one specific theme in common: each of them has been the setting for a mass shooting, on campuses or in public places that resulted in the injury or death of multiple bystanders (Ingraham). When violent information reaches social media, it results in issues such as gun-control policy and tighter security in public places to rise to prominence on political agendas. In addition, the consideration of other issues found in shootings, such as mental and social disorders, which cannot be immediately corrected

More and more media sensationalisms are used in news coverage today because more and more reporters want their works make the headlines in the press. Big events, like the Las Vagus shooting, that everyone is paying attention to are absolutely targets of these reporters who want to use sensationalism. Two pieces of news articles concerning the Las Vagus shooting are going to be analyzed and compared in this paper based on the concept of sensationalism. While one news writer, Makia Freeman, makes

In the United States, mass shootings are unfortunately more common than anywhere else in the world. Since June 12 2016, when a mass shooting took place at an Orlando nightclub, to October 1st 2017, when the Las Vegas music festival shooting took place; Between that time period, there was 477 days, and 521 mass shootings. America has roughly 5% of the world's population, but holds 31% of the world's mass shootings. A mass shooting is defined as four or more people injured or killed in a single event

over 1,500 ‘mass shootings’ within the United States since the Sandy Hook school shooting in Newtown, CT (Schapiro, 2017). Media headlines on mass shootings tend to utilise higher numbers when it comes to how many are committed each year, mainly when it is about those committed in the United States. The lack of an official government standard on what should be considered a mass shooting has led to much confusion as to just how many there actually are. This paper will look at how the media uses this

majority of mass shooters have some form of mental health disorder or suffer from suicidal thoughts. Diagnosing and treating is often difficult because many do not visit the doctor on a regular basis making it impossible for them to be labeled as mentally ill; suicide rates have increased significantly in the past 30 years. (Lankford & Madfis, 2017) The broader social issues at hand need to be addressed as well in order for the mental health approach to work effectively; such issues include media coverage

Research in school shootings have been administered in many categories, including sociology, psychology, and etc. past studies, and direct later studies in school shootings, offers a sociology stand point for understanding the differences of school shooting incidents, including rampage shootings, mass murders shootings, and examining the mass media dynamic of school shootings; as well as presenting a combination of causes said in the research, including those on the individual, community, and social

and mass shootings because there is a significant correlation between the two. I selected the topic of the mentally ill and mass shootings because it is an ever increasing epidemic that needs to be addressed. As mass shootings continue to rise we can see a direct correlation between the mentally ill and acts of violence being carried out by those individuals. For example, Sandy Hook, the Aurora movie theater shooting, the Las Vegas Route 91 shooting, etc. Statistics show that a mass shooting is attempted