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Somewhere in the world, in the next forty seconds, a person is
going to commit suicide. Globally, suicides account for 50 percent
of all violent deaths among men and 71 percent for women. Despite
suicide prevention programs, therapy, and pharmacological
treatments, the suicide rate is either increasing or remaining high
around the world. Media and Suicide holds traditional and emergent
media accountable for influencing an individual's decision to
commit suicide. Global experts present research, historical
analysis, theoretical disputes (including discussion on the Werther
and Papageno effects), and policy regarding the media's impact on
suicide. They answer questions about the effects of different types
of media and storytelling, show how the impact of social media can
be diminished, discuss internet bullying, mass-shootings and
mass-suicides, show the effects of recovery stories, and much more.
The editors also present examples of suicide policy in the United
States, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Hong Kong on
how to best communicate reporting guidelines to decrease the
copycat effect, especially in less developed nations where most of
the world's nearly one million suicides occur each year. Although
there is much work to be done to prevent media-influenced suicide,
this innovative volume will contribute a large piece to this
complex puzzle.
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