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Analysing the presence of school-shooting related communities at social media sites
Jorma KyppoJari VeijalainenAlexander Semenovsubject
GeographySocial media miningSocial networkbusiness.industryOntologyWestern worldSocial mediaCriminologyMultimedia data miningRelation (history of concept)businessSocial psychologydescription
Surprisingly cruel mass murders and attacks have been witnessed in the educational institutions of the Western world since the 1970s. These are often referred to as 'school shootings'. There have been over 300 known incidents around the world and the number is growing. Social network sites (SNSs) have enabled the perpetrators to express their views and intentions. Our result is that since about 2005, all major school shooters have had a presence in SNS and some have left traces that would have made possible to evaluate their intentions to carry out a rampage. A further hypothesis is that future school shooters will behave in a similar manner and would thus be traceable in the digital sphere. In this paper, we try to take advantage of this tendency and study the presence of school shooting related information in various SNS and its relation to past and perhaps future cases.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010-01-01 | International Journal of Multimedia Intelligence and Security |