School shootings have raised considerable interest among scholars as a global cultural phenomenon and have increased specifically in the 1990s developing into a seeming cultural epidemic. This book focuses on practices of mediatization, with emphasis on mediated coverage of school shootings and its political, cultural, and ethical implications.

School shootings have raised considerable interest among scholars as a global (media) cultural phenomenon and have increased specifically in the 1990s developing into a seeming cultural epidemic. This book contributes to the current academic discussion on school shootings by analysing this phenomenon in a broader context of mediatization in contemporary social and cultural life. Mediatized logic has the power to influence us as individuals communicating about the shootings and experiencing the shootings as victimizers, victims, witnesses or bystanders. In three sections, this book explores...