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Last piece I wrote on ISIS media strategy, which media cooperates with: put panic on loop even when there's no news. https://www.buzzfeed.com/zeyneptufekci/dont-let-isis-shape-the-news …pic.twitter.com/z3UdMl2ydO
My 2015 piece summarizing some of the research that shows how excessive, sensationalist publicity inspires copycats. https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/27/opinion/the-virginia-shooter-wanted-fame-lets-not-give-it-to-him.html …pic.twitter.com/GCQOCCXxLZ
My 2012 (!) piece asking media to learn from CDC guidelines on suicide contagion to dampen mass murder copycats. https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/12/the-media-needs-to-stop-inspiring-copycat-murders-heres-how/266439/ …pic.twitter.com/6HkQJuH0U9
The panic loop is not adding to news coverage. Hounding victims for statements (as has happened!) is horrible. We need sane coverage.
As I said, I've been sounding alarms about ISIS when the West was ignoring them. My recs are exactly because I *am* terribly concerned.
zeynep tufekci Retweeted Fred Kaplan
This type loop coverage isn't about the public's right to know or assess threats—both of which are reasonable goals.https://twitter.com/fmkaplan/status/871183908586520580 …
zeynep tufekci added,
zeynep tufekci Retweeted malcolmmoore
Why wouldn't they? Anything that leaves six dead is a horrible event. It's also 1.5 *hours* of gun deaths in the US.https://twitter.com/malcolmmoore/status/871325993511911424 …
zeynep tufekci added,
zeynep tufekci Retweeted David Andress
No existential terrorism crisis Europe. Just the "troubles" in Britain claimed so so many more. This can be beaten.https://twitter.com/profdaveandress/status/871251642162741249 …
zeynep tufekci added,
CNN wall-to-wall & live from Paris where one guy swung a hammer at police—not yesterday's mass shooting in Orlando *USA* which killed five.pic.twitter.com/Ro9c3iko6q
zeynep tufekci Retweeted Chris Lawrence
Orlando coverage was way more muted yesterday, too. Also one guy with a hammer in another country vs five dead here?https://twitter.com/lordsutch/status/872144776879120384 …
zeynep tufekci added,
zeynep tufekci Retweeted
Yep they had nothing to show or report. Watched ~hour, kept zooming in on the same few cops. No news. Nothing new. https://twitter.com/_elena/status/872154750069899264 …
zeynep tufekci added,
the media exists to scare people. Most people in big cities are very resilient; some have lived through far worse to get there
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