“Husband, father, coward, killer”: The discursive reproduction of racial inequality in media accounts of mass shooters

Relying on more expansive criteria for defining “mass shootings” than much existing research, we examine a subset of a unique dataset incorporating 7,048 news documents covering 2,170 shootings in the United States between 2013 and 2019. We analyze the descriptive language used to describe incidents...

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Main Authors: Tristan Bridges, Tara Leigh Tober, Melanie Brazzell, Maya Chatterjee
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-09-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.966980/full