...this phenomenon is called the “Werther Effect”, after Goethe’s Sorrows of Young Werther. In Goethe’s 18th century sturm und drang novel, the melancholic hero Werther shoots himself in the head over his unrequited love for a girl called Lotte. When the book first appeared in 1774, it triggered an epidemic of similar acts of despair – the first known examples of “copycat suicides” in modern history.Web 2.0 is not more responsible for killing sprees, than Kurt Cobain and Kate Moss are for glamourising drug use, than tiny models are responsible for anorexia, than the mass media is responsible for the early sexualisation of girls... The word you are looking for is cofactors people. Somethings are too complicated to be caused by a single thing..
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Web 2.0 responsible for killing sprees?
Over at Throwing Sheep there's an interesting post on the role of Web 2.0 in anti-social behaviour. Unsurprisingly, given the tendency of people to respond to headlines rather that the copy, it's sparked a number of netizens to defend the utopia of user-generated-content, and interaction that is Web 2.0.
But, that's actually doing the authors a real disservice, and doesn't really address their point. They are not arguing that YouTube causes mass murders, rather that YouTube, to some extent normalises mass murders, making the unthinkable, slightly more thinkable to people who may have been on the edge in the first place. They also point out this is not a new phenomenon.
Flock it's good
So, as well as changing web sites, (and can I just say I'm looking forward to getting the Wordpress site up and running properly) I've also changed web browsers, from Firefox to Flock.
Initially I thought I'd find the Flock interface too crowded - but in fact I love having all that information right there in front of me. In one glance I can see my Facebook friend updates, the twitter updates, my favourite RSS feeds everything.
It's seriously cool
Blogged with Flock
A new home
So, after two different attempts at blogging hosted on my .mac account, I've moved to Wordpress.
Why WordPress - easy, impressive feature set and super flexible, which is pretty much all I was looking for.
Obviously this site will be under construction for a bit while I get it set up and all my links and stuff carried across - but so far I'm pretty impressed
