'We see some forms of violence peak when society becomes fascinated... We know that mass shootings are socially contagious and tend to occur in clusters,' says Jillian Peterson, a psychologist and professor at Hamline University in Minnesota.
Some say the media should take a page from its own playbook on writing about suicides as a guide to how to handle mass shootings with a sensitivity to the contagion effect.
Gabriel Kahn, a professor at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, said suicides are often private incidents that do not receive media attention, but news organizations have an obligation to cover massacres that impact readers and viewers. "I don’t think anyone’s ever looked at a photo of a mass shooter and said, 'Because I see their face, I can prevent the next mass shooting with higher likelihood,'" he said.
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