On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold shot killed fifteen people at their high school in Columbine, Colorado. National media dubbed the event a “school shooting.” The term grimly expanded over next several years to include similar events army bases, movie theaters, churches, nightclubs. Today, we commonly use categories “mass shooter” shooting” organize classify information about gun...

Violence among young people is an important public health topic as a universal problem. One of the recent issues concerning both the media and parents is the aggressive behavior among the high school students in Istanbul and the worldwide. The aim of this study was to investigate the types and rates of aggressive behavior and the contributing factors to this behavior among high school students....

Violent youth crime generates significant media and public attention, particularly “gang”, or group, related crime and gun and knife crime. When young women are involved in violence, as perpetrators or instigators, this receives disproportionate coverage, drawing on a discourse of girls being “just as bad as the boys” (Burman et al.:2003, Miller:2001). Alongside this interest in girls’ particip...

News media are in a position to project certain perspectives on domestic violence while marginalizing others, which has implications for public understanding and policy development. This study applies discourse analysis to articles on domestic violence in two U.K. national daily newspapers published in 2001-2002 and 2011-2012 to evaluate evidence of change over a 10-year time span. The research...

In a short period of nearly four decades, China, with one fifth of the world’s population, has rapidly evolved from a predominantly agricultural, poor and developing country to an upper middleincome country. At the same time, China faces numerous daunting social challenges. One of them is the widespread, profound, and advancing crisis of patient–physician trust. Among the many manifestations of...

BACKGROUND This evaluative study assesses the efficacy of a school-based secondary prevention program consisting of creative expression workshops for immigrant and refugee preschoolers in a predominantly South Asian multiethnic neighborhood. Coincidentally, the program began in the wake of the tsunami. METHOD Pretest and posttest data were collected from the parents and teachers of 105 presch...

  This study compared the use of interpersonal and mass media channels of communication among rural farmers in Kogi State, Nigeria. The specific objectives were to describe the socio economic characteristics of the farmers, determine the influence of socioeconomic characteristics on the usage of interpersonal and media channels, ascertain farmers’ level of awareness of interpersonal and media c...

from a sociological point of view, social trust is an important element of social order. it is strengthened or undermined by certain factors including mass media. the present study, using a survey method with a sample of 400 citizens of tehran, was aimed at examining the effects of mass media on social trust. the study examined the relationship between three media (national television, satellit...

In this paper we examine the information sharing practices of people living in cities amid armed conflict. We describe the volume and frequency of microblogging activity on Twitter from four cities afflicted by the Mexican Drug War, showing how citizens use social media to alert one another and to comment on the violence that plagues their communities. We then investigate the emergence of civic...