Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2022
Keywords
Field Theory, Mass Shootings, School Shootings, Cable News, Electronic News
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1177/19312431221111380
Abstract
Through discourse analysis, this article seeks to compare the cable news coverage of the Columbine High School shooting and the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting (n = 81) in the first two days of coverage using field theory, with CNN broadcast transcripts as the unit of analysis. The research showed that the shooter was the dominant shaping force in the CNN discourse in both school shooting events.
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Citation / Publisher Attribution
Electronic News, v. 16, issue 3, p. 147-163
Hume, H., & Perreault, G., Media and Mass Shootings: Field Theory in CNN News Coverage of The Columbine High School and Parkland High School Mass Shootings, Electronic News, 16(3), pp. 147-163. Copyright © 2022 by SAGE Publications.
The final authenticated version is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1177/19312431221111380.
Scholar Commons Citation
Hume, Hannah and Perreault, Gregory P., "Media and Mass Shootings: Field Theory in CNN News Coverage of The Columbine High School and Parkland High School Mass Shootings" (2022). School of Advertising & Mass Communications Faculty Publications. 55.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/com_facpub/55
