Media

Welcome to the discussion on death and media. This section will contain articles on video games, fiction, and how people interact with death in various forms of media. While it is inevitable that someone close will die, not everyone has experienced death and loss first hand. For those people, the media is arguably their sole source of information regarding death. Media involving the loss of human life does not only appear during the news on television but also through video games, the internet and other forms of social media. Content seen in the news today focuses heavily on death whether it is from terrorist attacks  or natural causes. Social media sites like Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram also have ways of informing the public by using hashtags and attaching pictures to posts. The media is also known for showcasing fictional deaths  through video games, television, and movies. The attachment that viewers form to these characters and the reactions they have to their demise creates a larger discussion on how people deal with death.These pages further look into aspects of how users interact with social media and experience collective grief. Rather, the grief is triggered by the passing of a person or of a social media platform i.e vine. It can be argued through these various forms of social media the public is becoming increasingly desensitized to the loss of human life. Video games popularized by killing, News sources predominantly covering loss of life and social media containing violent content all play into this argument. Through various sources, pages below will explore how people interact with media associated with death.

Video Games

 * Crowd Funding in the Video Game Industry
 * Do Video Games Cause People to Kill
 * Empathy, Death, and Video Games
 * Hades in Mythology versus Hades in SMITE (Also found in Culture)

**Social Media**

 * Social Media and Cyber-bullying Influence on Suicide

General Fiction

 * As Seen on TV: Violent Death in the Media
 * Celebrating the Dearly Departed
 * Death in Fiction vs Reality
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Death in Media
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Death in Picture Books
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Death in Television
 * Death Metal vs. Pixar Animations
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Media on Terrorist Attacks
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Near Death Experiences in Quentin Tarantino Films
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Why does the death of fictional characters have such a great effect on people?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Media On Terrorist Attacks
 * The Importance of a Code of Ethics on Media

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