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Entitlement, masculinity, and violence? an analysis of New York Times reporting and Twitter discourse on US school shootings
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2019-05
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A handful of salient factors are consistently omitted in public discourse surrounding
school shootings in the United States. Uniformity of shooters’ race and gender persists across
almost all of these events, as perpetrators of US school shootings have overwhelmingly been
white boys and men. Following the work of previous scholars, I assert that the production and
perpetuation of hegemonic masculinity and aggrieved entitlement play a pivotal role in school
shootings. Today’s world relies heavily on the media for information dissemination, which in
turn shapes our understanding of major events, social issues, and cultural values .I collected
reports of recent US school shootings from the New York Times and later collected tweets that
allowed for a comparison of how traditional (NYT) vs new social media (Twitter) frame these
events. My research suggests that conversations surrounding the role of racialized/toxic
masculinity and school shootings are occurring in some spaces rather than others, and has
generated findings that could assist future scholars/activists in identifying how to effectively
disseminate discourse surrounding this factor.
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