Nobody likes to hear this but. These shooters are often motivated by posthumous infamy. Media coverage matters.http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/27/opinion/the-virginia-shooter-wanted-fame-lets-not-give-it-to-him.html …
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US mass killers show no coherent ideological pattern to individual motivations. One thinks he's "Joker"; another thinks he's waging "Jihad".
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How notoriety motivates mass killers. Don't put their faces, names and manifestos on loop. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/27/opinion/the-virginia-shooter-wanted-fame-lets-not-give-it-to-him.html …pic.twitter.com/pRVUfmQrow
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in Turkey police likes fame! selfie with a serial killer in news! it is not the first and it wont be last...
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What about the OKCity bombing, Timothy McVeigh?
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@cshirky We need a good journalism best practice of minimizing names, faces, fame of killers. Maybe name in article, not TV/radio.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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thoughts re statements of these murderers? Why do daesh a favour by publicising their killing in name of daesh?
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forming a cycle that strengthens the power of state
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I'd like to see media spend a day each highlighting each victim of mass shooting. Let's publicize their names, their lost futures.
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(Modulo their families' wishes of course.)
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do you have a particularly good study/lit review/etc. you can recommend? My Google-fu is failing me.
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I summarized some here, also check Mother Jones any my 2012 Atlantic article.
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