Imagining globalised fears: School shooting videos and circulation of violence on YouTube

Social Anthropology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 254-267

  Sumiala, Johanna ^a,b   Tikka, Minttu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Circulation; Fear; School shootings; Social imaginaries; Symbolic violence; YouTube

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053129602     PISSN: 09640282     EISSN: 14698676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8676.2011.00158.x     Document Type: Article

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