🔎Do media effects depend on societal zeitgeist?
📣Our new study published #openaccess in #CommunicationResearch traces 146 years of suicide reporting and rates in the UK and shows that Werther effect-type patterns are different during societal crisis. doi.org/10.1177/0093... #mediaeffects #CSS
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Investigating Conditional Macro-Level Media Effects Over a Long-Term: How Crisis Periods Moderate the Effects of Suicide Coverage on Suicide Rate Change (1861–2007) - Christina Viehmann, Stefan Geiß, ...
How does media shape society over decades, and does its effect vary depending on the societal atmosphere or zeitgeist? While theoretically important, there is a...
