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Explorer Cafe Fall 2018: Sept. 19

"Why Do We Buy into Media’s Reporting on Celebrity Suicide?" presented by Kate Ward Gaus, Serita Reels, Mark Lashley, and Emily Brooks

Articles

Ueda, M., Mori, K., Matsubayashi, T., & Sawada, Y. (2017). Tweeting celebrity suicides: Users' reaction to prominent suicide deaths on twitter and subsequent increases in actual suicides. Social Science & Medicine, 189, 158-166. doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.20
Niederkrotenthaler, T., Fu, K., Paul S F Yip, Daniel Y T Fong, Stack, S., Cheng, Q., & Pirkis, J. (2012). Changes in suicide rates following media reports on celebrity suicide: A meta-analysis. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health (1979-), 66(11),
Arendt, F., & Scherr, S. (2017). The impact of a highly publicized celebrity suicide on suicide-related online information seeking. Crisis, 38(3), 207-209. doi:10.1027/0227-5910/a000455
Mueller, A. S. (2017). Does the media matter to suicide?: Examining the social dynamics surrounding media reporting on suicide in a suicide-prone community. Social Science & Medicine, 180, 152-159. doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.03.019

Coverage of Celebrity Suicides

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