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Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>"In 1974 the concept of the ‘Werther Effect’ was coined by David Philipps, who suggested that reporting on high profile suicides - such as a celebrity or one blamed on a novel - can cause a spike of copycat suicides. Notably this is about reports of real world suicides, not fictional ones.</p><p>Assuming Philipps theory is correct, the panicked reporting on ‘The Sorrows of Young Werther’ could have exacerbated any uptick in youth suicides - many of which may well have been wrongly blamed on the novel, reported as such and lead to more coverage and potentially more copycats.</p><p>Although even ‘the Werther Effect’ could be just another simplistic answer to a complex issue: youth suicide - and scapegoating media - real or fictional, a distraction from real mitigations."</p><p><a href="https://newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org/p/the-1774-novel-blamed-for-youth-suicide" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">newsletter.pessimistsarchive.o</span><span class="invisible">rg/p/the-1774-novel-blamed-for-youth-suicide</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Literature</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Goethe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Goethe</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Germany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Germany</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/MediaPanics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MediaPanics</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/MediaEffects" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MediaEffects</span></a></p>
Bridget Barrett<p>In other words, targeted ads can have large, significant effects on people’s understandings of their social identities. That’s important! <br><a href="https://sciences.social/tags/mediaeffects" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mediaeffects</span></a> <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/mediastudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mediastudies</span></a> <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/commodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>commodon</span></a> <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/politicalscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>politicalscience</span></a> <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/advertising" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>advertising</span></a> <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/politicalcommunication" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>politicalcommunication</span></a></p>
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