March 14, 2021
6. Sticks and stones - or, words do matter.
"Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never break me"
Really?
A discussion about young people and resilience,
the power of words - for good and bad,
what this all means in an 'always-on' social media world,
and the power the media has - not only constructing narratives to suit their agendas to influence the public, but also the judicial and political systems.
If you want to read Huff and Kertzner’s paper entitled 'How the media defines terrorism', check out the abstract here
https://www.jstor.org/stable/26598750?mag=how-the-media-can-define-terrorism&seq=1
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