Julie A. Webber is Professor of Politics and Government at Illinois State University. She has published several books and essays. Among them are Failure to Hold: The Politics of School Violence and The Cultural Set Up of Comedy: Affective Politics in the U.S. Post 9/11.

• Acknowledgments – List of Mass Attacks (1999–2016) Included in This Analysis – Introduction: Virtual Violence: Beyond the «Columbine Thesis» – The Many Tropes of Columbine – Passage à l’acte: New Thoughts on Civility – The Failure of the Middle-Class Social Contract – Of Rogues and Fans – Remote Projection and Militarized Subjectivity: A Different Iteration – Conclusion – Epilogue – Notes – Bibliography – Index.

“Julie A. Webber reflects on public mass shootings since Columbine by eschewing the usual and easy explanations. Describing the perpetrators as ‘canaries in the coal mine,’ she suggests that we therefore need to reflect upon the coal mine—what is it about society that makes such acts compelling to these men? She offers a complex journey through the facts of the cases and the larger questions about the virtual and the real.”—Joan Tronto, Professor of Political Science, University of Minnesota

Julie A. Webber is Professor of Politics and Government at Illinois State University. She has published several books and essays. Among them are Failure to Hold: The Politics of School Violence and The Cultural Set Up of Comedy: Affective Politics in the U.S. Post 9/11.

• Acknowledgments – List of Mass Attacks (1999–2016) Included in This Analysis – Introduction: Virtual Violence: Beyond the «Columbine Thesis» – The Many Tropes of Columbine – Passage à l’acte: New Thoughts on Civility – The Failure of the Middle-Class Social Contract – Of Rogues and Fans – Remote Projection and Militarized Subjectivity: A Different Iteration – Conclusion – Epilogue – Notes – Bibliography – Index.

“Julie A. Webber reflects on public mass shootings since Columbine by eschewing the usual and easy explanations. Describing the perpetrators as ‘canaries in the coal mine,’ she suggests that we therefore need to reflect upon the coal mine—what is it about society that makes such acts compelling to these men? She offers a complex journey through the facts of the cases and the larger questions about the virtual and the real.”—Joan Tronto, Professor of Political Science, University of Minnesota

Julie A. Webber is Professor of Politics and Government at Illinois State University. She has published several books and essays. Among them are Failure to Hold: The Politics of School Violence and The Cultural Set Up of Comedy: Affective Politics in the U.S. Post 9/11.

• Acknowledgments – List of Mass Attacks (1999–2016) Included in This Analysis – Introduction: Virtual Violence: Beyond the «Columbine Thesis» – The Many Tropes of Columbine – Passage à l’acte: New Thoughts on Civility – The Failure of the Middle-Class Social Contract – Of Rogues and Fans – Remote Projection and Militarized Subjectivity: A Different Iteration – Conclusion – Epilogue – Notes – Bibliography – Index.

“Julie A. Webber reflects on public mass shootings since Columbine by eschewing the usual and easy explanations. Describing the perpetrators as ‘canaries in the coal mine,’ she suggests that we therefore need to reflect upon the coal mine—what is it about society that makes such acts compelling to these men? She offers a complex journey through the facts of the cases and the larger questions about the virtual and the real.”—Joan Tronto, Professor of Political Science, University of Minnesota