News Framing of School Shootings

Michael McCluskey is associate professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsChapter 1: News, Society and ViolenceChapter 2: News Framing, Frame Building and Problem DefinitionsChapter 3: Influences on School Shooting News FramesChapter 4: Guns and Value FramingChapter 5: Popular Media, Moral Panics and Culture WarsChapter 6: Religion, Coping and BlamingChapter 7: Other Individual-Level Problem DefinitionsChapter 8: Other Societal-Level Problem DefinitionsChapter 9: Heroism ArchetypesChapter 10: Evaluation of News Discourse, Effects and LessonsReferencesAbout the Author

This book is an essential contribution to the study of news framing and frame building. Dr. McCluskey impeccably weaves in many complex concepts such as religion, guns, culture wars, journalistic norms, and news discourse in the United States to tell a compelling story with empirical data. A must-read for academics, journalists, and the public.