Media Construction of Suicide: A Critical Review of the Suicide Media Contagion Hypothesis
Historically, suicide narratives in cyberspace have been studied under the Suicide Media Contagion hypothesis. This hypothesis states that exposure to suicide stories in mass media are a risk factor in the production of suicide. In this essay, I make a critical reflection on this hypothesis from Soc...
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Universidad Complutense de Madrid
2013-12-01
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| Series: | Revista Teknokultura |
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| Online Access: | http://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/TEKN/article/view/48071 |