“I died to inspire you”: an analysis of the narratives in dispute perpetrated by school shooters

• Autor(a) principal: Daemon, Flora
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: RECIIS (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://www.reciis.icict.fiocruz.br/index.php/reciis/article/view/1021
• topic: murder/suicide; mediatization; death; school shooting; violence.; homicidio/suicidio; mediatización; muerte; tiroteo en escuelas; violencia.; homicídio/suicídio; midiatização; morte; tiroteio em escolas; violência.

This paper discusses the crimes of murder/suicide committed by young people within the space of educational institutions. Our corpus analysis is restricted to a specific type of perpetrator that seeks the development of communication products, using different styles, in order to support the journalistic work of inquiry about their crimes and, thus be able to intervenes and competes with the media for the right to represent and signify themselves, even after their deaths. This young people become authors of the crimes and discourses insofar as they intend to keep their memories alive. Such strategy evidences a paradox: in times of major investment in interventions that target the extension of life, they use the untamable power of death to forge a kind of existence that necessarily involves the media image and biological self-annihilation. This phenomenon will be analyzed from the crimes of Cho Seung-Hui, Pekka-Eric Auvinen and Wellington Menezes de Oliveira.