The current study examines the severity, characteristics, and coverage of fame-seeking
mass shootings in the United States from 1966 to 2018. Specifically, this research highlights …

Media are fundamental to our sense of living in a social world. Since the beginning of
modernity, media have transformed the scale on which we act as social beings. And now in …

Originating in the early 1970s, the concept of moral panic has been used to describe the
public's reaction to a real or perceived threat. Moral panic has been linked to well-known …

From Paris to San Bernardino, Barcelona to Manchester, home-grown terrorism is among
the most urgent challenges confronting Western nations. Attempts to understand jihadism …

Across media, academy and popular culture in western societies there is much talk of an
implosion of the modern gender order. Education is often presented as a key site in which a …

Featuring a unique overview of the different forms of extreme violence, this book considers
the psychology of extreme violence alongside a variety of contributing factors, such as brain …

Purpose–This study examines perpetrators and their fans media participation for the
purpose of investigating whether new media produce school shootings anew. Method–We …

Past research found that messages in popular television promote fame as a top value, while
social media allow anyone to reach broad audiences (Uhls & Greenfield, 2011; Uhls & …

In November 2011, 20-year-old Egyptian blogger Alia al-Mahdy posted a nude picture of
herself on her blog. The photograph received 1.5 million hits within a week of its posting and …

Nearly as soon as the first shot is fired, the news media already are rushing to break
coverage of rampage shooting events, the likes of which typically last days or, in the more …