Media and suicide: international perspectives on research, theory, and policy

Introduction

Media and suicide : an overview / Thomas Niederkrotenthaler, Austria, & Steven Stack, USA

Research on media impacts on suicide

Why men choose firearms more than women : gender & the portrayal of firearm suicide in film, 1900-2014 / Steven Stack, & Barbara Bowman, USA

Suicide stories in the U.S. media : rare and focused on the young / Silvia Canetto, Phillip T. Tatum, & Michael D. Slater, USA

Mass shootings and murder-suicide : review of empirical evidence for contagion / Madelyn Gould, & Michael Olivares, USA

Internet bullying differentiates suicide attempters from ideators / Steven Stack, USA

The use of social media in the aftermath of a suicide / Jo Bell, & Louis Bailey, U.K

Suicide and newer media : the good, the bad, and the googly / Jane Pirkis, Katherine Mok, & Jo Robinson, Australia

The heroic and the criminal, the beautiful and the ugly : suicide reflected in the mirror of the arts / Karolina Krysinska & Karl Andriessen, Australia

Suicide in kabuki plays / Karolina Krysinska, Australia

Theories of media impacts

Why media coverage of suicide may increase suicide rates : an epistemological review / C.E. Notredame, N. Pauwels, M. Walter, T. Danel, J. L. Nandrino, & G. Vaiva, France

Papageno effect : its progress in media research and contextualization with findings on harmful media effects / Thomas Niederkrotenthaler, Austria

The impact of suicide portrayals in films on audiences : a qualitative study / Benedikt Till, Austria

Between werther and Papageno effects : a propositional meta analysis of ambiguous findings for helpful and harmful media effects on suicide contagion / Sebastian Scherr, & Anna Steinleitner, Germany

Policy issues

Suicide and mass media reporting: the very beginning of the viennese experience in the 1980's / Gernot Sonneck, Austria, & Elmar Etzersdorfer, Germany

Developing the u.s, media recommendations for reporting on suicide : a comprehensive and collaborative approach / Daniel Reidenberg, USA

Raising media awareness in French-speaking Switzerland : best practices / Irina Inostroza, & Joanne Schweizer Rodrigues, Switzerland

Reporting responsible portrayal of suicide : lessons from the UK and the Republic of Ireland / Lorna Fraser, Lisa Marzano, & Keith Hawton, U. K

Implementing international media guidelines in a local context : experiences from Hong Kong / Qijin Cheng, & Paul S.F. Yip, Hong Kong

Conclusions / Steven Stack, USA., & Thomas Niederkrotenthaler, Austria

About the authors.