There is a Gunman on Campus Tragedy and Terror at Virginia Tech
by Agger, Ben; Luke, Timothy W.; Aronowitz, Stanley; Ayers, William; Agger, Ben; Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne; Guertin, Carolyn; Hunnicutt, Gwen; Kellner, Douglas; Kimmel, Michael; King, Neal; Kroll-Smith, Steve; Lemert, Charles; Levy, Matthew A.; Luke, Timothy W.;Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2008-03-27
Publisher(s): Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Summary
In our media-saturated culture, momentous events occur quickly, as news and images are broadcast around the country and the world. We are often riveted by the news and our everyday reality is suddenly changed. Yet, almost as quickly, that critical event is replaced by a new story. The old event fades from memory, and we move on before understanding why it commanded our attention and how our world was changed.
Author Biography
Ben Agger is professor of sociology and humanities at the University of Texas, Arlington Timothy W. Luke is professor of political science at Virginia Tech
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. vii |
| April 16, 2007, at Virginia Tech-To: Multiple Recipients: "A Gunman Is Loose on Campus..." | p. 1 |
| Media Spectacle and the "Massacre at Virginia Tech" | p. 29 |
| Mediated Ritual on Academic Ground | p. 55 |
| Profiling School Shooters and Shooters' Schools: The Cultural Contexts of Aggrieved Entitlement and Restorative Masculinity | p. 65 |
| "Victims Sought in Next Week's Shooting" | p. 79 |
| "We Are All Seung-Hui Cho!": American Social Psychosis and the Virginia Tech Killings | p. 93 |
| Satire, Guns, and Humans: Lessons from the Nacirema | p. 105 |
| S/he's Lost Control?: Damaging a Body of Knowledge | p. 119 |
| When Rhetoric Fails: The Heroic Teacher and the Basic Communications Course | p. 141 |
| There Is an Unknown on Campus: From Normative to Performative Violence in Academia | p. 159 |
| The April 16 Archive: Collecting and Preserving Memories of the Virginia Tech Tragedy | p. 185 |
| Colonization and Massacres: Virginia Tech, Jamestown, Korea, and Iraq | p. 207 |
| All The Rage: Digital Bodies and Deadly Play in the Age of the Suicide Bomber | p. 213 |
| Is Virginia Tech an Exception? | p. 229 |
| Baudrillard (1929-2007) & Mao: A History of Normal Violence | p. 235 |
| Cho, Not Che?: Positioning Blacksburg in the Political | p. 243 |
| About the Contributors | p. 251 |
| Index | p. 255 |
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