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Mass Shootings: Media, Myths, and Realities (Crime, Media, and Popular Culture) by Jaclyn Schildkraut and H. Jaymi Elsass is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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This book provides readers and researchers with a critical examination of mass shootings as told by the media, offering research-based, factual answers to oft-asked questions and investigating common myths about these tragic events.When a mass shooting happens, the news media is flooded with headlines and breaking information about the shooters, victims, and acts themselves. What is notably absent in the news reporting are any concrete details that serve to inform news consumers how prevalent these mass shootings really are (or are not, when considering crime statistics as a whole), what legitimate causes for concern are, and how likely an individual is to be involved in such an incident. Instead, these events often are used as catalysts for conversations about larger issues such as gun control and mental health care reform. What critical points are we missing when the media focuses on only what'people want to hear'? This book explores the media attention to mass shootings and helps readers understand the problem of mass shootings and public gun violence from its inception to its existence in contemporary society. It discusses how the issue is defined, its history, and its prevalen

Who reads Mass Shootings: Media, Myths, and Realities (Crime, Media, and Popular Culture)?

Author

Jaclyn Schildkraut and H. Jaymi Elsass

Publisher

Praeger; Praeger, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9788216115398

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, True Crime, Education