The Media Spectacle of Columbine

Alienated Youth as an Object of Fear

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3759065
AutoresBenjamin Frymer (Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California, autor de correspondencia)
Año2009
Volumen52
Número10
Páginas1387-1404
Fecha de publicación2009-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAmerican Behavioral Scientist (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0002-7642 • E-ISSN: 1552-3381
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0002764209332554
OpenAlexW1993967771
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas20
Referencias citadas22

Although youth violence and "delinquency" have frequently generated fear of alienated youth in American life, especially since the 1950s, the media coverage of the Columbine shootings reconstructed youth alienation in novel ways, generating a new fear and reality of "alien" youth. Analysis of both print and television media shows that following Columbine, school shooters have come to stand for an entire constellation of threats and troubles now ostensibly emanating from the very lifeworlds of formerly harmless White suburban youth. These lifeworlds have been typically framed in terms of alienation: as new forms of adolescent estrangement from parents, schools, and the major institutions and dominant culture of American life

Alienation · Criminology · Juvenile delinquency · Media studies · Political science · Sociology · Spectacle · White (mutation) · Youth culture · American Political and Social Dynamics · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control · Gender Studies · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law · Psychology