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This study examines the role of partisan media bias in the reporting of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida on February 14, 2018, and on the March For Our Lives gun control protests that followed the shooting. This study posits partisan media bias at the center of the Parkland shooting. It asks how partisan bias affected the way the media constructed narratives about the shooting and the youth activists who mobilized because of their experiences of victimiza...| Journal of Mass Violence Research
At first blush it is tempting to just assign #MeToo and #NeverAgain to the growing pool of hashtagged social movements that happen to get their teeth into the media cycle for an extended period of time. They both benefit from being related, in one way or another, to the infinite-scroll train wreck that is the Trump presidency. And most importantly, both are at the spearpoint of what looks to be rapid and in many ways shocking social change. But these two movements are interesting for another ...|
David Hogg is a modern kid, raised in an atmosphere of constant social media manipulation, both from the outside (media), and from all of his peers. He is a child of Facebook. He has been raised to manipulate his classmates through posts and streams, in a generation where attention is more valuable than anything else in life, and where attention is to be grabbed by any means possible. The massacre gave him the opportunity – and even honorable motivation – to step up and play the gam...| Tanner Hauser