As shooting rates among the young remain stratospheric, evidence suggests social media is serving as an accelerant to violence. Taunts that once could be forgotten now live on before large audiences, prompting people to take action.
To focus exclusively on the incomplete sociological perspective provided by this particular article would be to totally ignore the much more significant and empirically supported factors at play which go unmentioned. This is specifically why I consider this article to be a diversion rather than a reliable critique of a modern issue. If this article were to do any exploration of why the violence was taking place in the first place and how new technology was related to those actual reasons I would consider this an actual analysis. The headline and the framing of the argument in my opinion are extremely misleading considering the reality of these issues. The reason I used the term “scapegoating” is that this article seems to suggest that social media itself is a driver or homicides rather than the context and content of whatever is in these communications which appear on social media that result in violence.
article seems to suggest that social media itself is a driver or homicides rather than the context and content of whatever is in these communications which appear on social media that result in violence.
A wild misrepresentation of the article. It is strange to take “impersonal communications make aggression easier combined with physical isolation has an effect on violence” to be “Twitter is killing people”
To focus exclusively on the incomplete sociological perspective
Every perspective is incomplete. That’s impossible to avoid, just because in this specific case you’ve decided to care about that fact doesn’t make their article wrong.
would be to totally ignore the much more significant and empirically supported factors at play which go unmentione
They don’t even to unmentioned.
OK so you’re really at this point just looking for reasons to talk about rhetoric and complain they didn’t write the entire article about xyz problem that’s easier to discuss since it’s already been sound bitten to oblivion. This isn’t productive. Cheers.
To focus exclusively on the incomplete sociological perspective provided by this particular article would be to totally ignore the much more significant and empirically supported factors at play which go unmentioned. This is specifically why I consider this article to be a diversion rather than a reliable critique of a modern issue. If this article were to do any exploration of why the violence was taking place in the first place and how new technology was related to those actual reasons I would consider this an actual analysis. The headline and the framing of the argument in my opinion are extremely misleading considering the reality of these issues. The reason I used the term “scapegoating” is that this article seems to suggest that social media itself is a driver or homicides rather than the context and content of whatever is in these communications which appear on social media that result in violence.
A wild misrepresentation of the article. It is strange to take “impersonal communications make aggression easier combined with physical isolation has an effect on violence” to be “Twitter is killing people”
Every perspective is incomplete. That’s impossible to avoid, just because in this specific case you’ve decided to care about that fact doesn’t make their article wrong.
They don’t even to unmentioned.
OK so you’re really at this point just looking for reasons to talk about rhetoric and complain they didn’t write the entire article about xyz problem that’s easier to discuss since it’s already been sound bitten to oblivion. This isn’t productive. Cheers.
I had a feeling we were talking past one another. No hard feelings. Cheers.