Of the 20 deadliest mass shootings, more than half have occurred in the past 10 years.
The shooting at Orlando, Florida, nightclub on June 12, 2016, that left 49 dead and many wounded, was the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history-until October 1, 2017, when a shooting at the Route 91 Harvest music festival in Las Vegas where at least 58 were killed and 527 injured. Gun policy has been one of the most perennial, contentious issues in the United States. These findings offer insights into the opportunity to reconcile conflicts and the potential for creating civic technologies to improve the interpretability of linguistic and narrative signals and to support diverse narratives and framing. The shifting patterns in users’ narratives coincide with the two groups distinctive emotional response revealed in text. Meanwhile, more tweets were observed to express causal reasoning of a held policy stance, and a different pattern in the use of rhetoric schemes, such as the decline of provocative ridicule, emerged. Overall, in the wake of mass shooting events, the tweets adhering to the majority policy stance within a camp declined, whereas the proportion of mixed or flipped stance tweets increased.
The findings suggest how shooting events may penetrate the public discursive processes that had been previously dominated by existing ideological references and may facilitate discussions beyond ideological identities. We found several distinctive narrative characteristics between the two ideology groups in response to the shooting events-two groups differed by how they incorporated linguistic and narrative features in their tweets in terms of policy stance, attribution (how one believed to be the problem, the cause or blame, and the solution), the rhetoric employed, and emotion throughout the incidents. The study design leveraged both the linguistic dictionary approach as well as thematic coding inspired by Narrative Policy Framework, which allows for statistical and qualitative comparison.
It utilizes large-scale, longitudinal social media traces from over 155,000 ideology-identifiable Twitter users. We also believe passionately that Birmingham should be one of the best places in the UK for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans (LGBT) people to live, work and socialise, and we work to enable a thriving, visible and PROUD LGBT community in the city.This study reveals a shift of gun-related narratives created by two ideological groups during three high-profile mass shootings in the United States across the years from 2016 to 2018. We offer a range of services focused on improving the health & wellbeing of individuals. *If a visitor’s temperature is 37.8 or above, the appointment/ visit cannot go ahead, and the visitor will be advised to contact NHS 111 for advice.īirmingham LGBT is the city’s leading charity advocating for and supporting lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans communities in Birmingham and beyond. We will provide both hand sanitising gel and hand-washing facilities. – Have their temperature taken using an infrared forehead thermometer (non-contact) – Be asked to sanitise hands on entry to the building
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