Surveillance

Social media has been evolving into another form of weaponry for school shooters. Schools now simply shut down when an anonymous account posts vaguely threatening messages, or pre-existing shooters are turned into figureheads within online communities. For every large group of people that see the shooters as beyond human, there’s a small number of people who see themselves. In its wake, we now are catching up to guidelines about how to report in the media responsibility, and to not infame shooters into what they want. But, the process is slow and the hidden internet communities where people lurk are numerous. We have to confront the fact that the cycle of violence is enabled more easily with technology. But, the solution might not lie there.