期刊名称：Essachess : Journal for Communication Studies
印刷版ISSN：2066-5083
电子版ISSN：1775-352X
出版年度：2011
卷号：4
期号：2
页码：145-159
出版社：Essachess
摘要：In this article, we will examine the ritualised dynamics of communication that emerged around the killer material on YouTube produced in four school shootings in the United States and in Finland: Columbine in 1999, Virginia Tech in 2007, Jokela in 2007, and Kauhajoki in 2008. The scope of the article is media anthropological. The dynamics of the dark digital encounters celebrating violence and misanthropy are discussed through the ideas of French social theorist Georges Bataille (1897–1962) on the constitution of the social through ritualised use of visual representations of violence and torture.
