Abstract

DAEMON, Flora. Between walls and media: a perspective about communication, bullying and school shootings. Rev. Epos [online]. 2015, vol.6, n.2, pp. 06-26. ISSN 2178-700X.

The paper discusses the crimes of murder/suicide committed by young people within the space of educational institutions. Our corpus analysis is restricted to a specific type of perpetrator that seeks the development of communication products, with different styles, in order to support the journalistic work of inquiry about their crimes and, thus be able to intervenes and competes with the media the right to represent and signify themselves, even after their deaths. This young people become perpetrators of the crime and discourse as they intend to keep their memories alive. Such strategy evidences a paradox: in times of major investment in interventions that target the extension of life, they uses the untamable power of death to forge a kind of existence that necessarily involves the media image and biological self-annihilation. This phenomenon will be analyzed based on the crimes of Cho Seung-Hui (Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, United States), Pekka-Eric Auvinen (Jokela High School, Tuusula, Finland) and Wellington Menezes de Oliveira (Tasso da Silveira, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil).

Keywords : school shooting; bullying; violence; mediatization; death.

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