Exogenous events and media reporting of mass shootings
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11230%2F21%3A10404952" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11230/21:10404952 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=6bOVUB5G0z" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=6bOVUB5G0z</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19434472.2020.1718738" target="_blank" >10.1080/19434472.2020.1718738</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Exogenous events and media reporting of mass shootings
Original language description
A growing literature has revealed that not all mass shootings are covered equally by the media. Thus far, endogenous and contextual characteristics of mass shootings have been causally associated with heightened print and online news coverage such as offender identity, weapon usage, motivations, shooting location and fatality count. This study utilizes univariate logistic regression to investigate whether the occurrence of exogenous events can offset coverage of mass shootings as measured through article counts drawn from the New York Times counts on 68 different cases. Results reveal that the odds of a given mass shooting being newsworthy are 12 times higher in absence of an exogenous event the day prior, the day of, or day after the shooting. These findings also support previously identified statistical trends. Cases featuring Middle-Eastern offenders have 28 times greater odds of being highly newsworthy. Large fatality counts also tend to attract news attention with each additional fatality in a shooting increasing the odds of it being highly newsworthy by one.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50601 - Political science
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression
ISSN
1943-4472
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
13
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
14
Pages from-to
160-173
UT code for WoS article
000512048700001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85078478036