Edit TABLE OF CONTENTS Download the entire issue (PDF) Front Pages i-viii “Silly and Superficial”: Headline Tone in Press TV and Voice of America Coverage of the U.S. Withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action Butler Cain 9 Using Smartphone as a Journalistic Tool: An Examination of Ethical Codes in Mobile Journalism in Saudi Arabia Ahmed Deen & Po-Lin Pan 27 Investigation of Social Approaches in Different Countries towards Suicide of the Blue Whale Game through Newspaper News

• Published in: ATHENS JOURNAL OF MASS MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS
• Main Author: Ayşe Aslı Sezgin
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Athens Institute for Education and Research 2021
• Subjects: media panic; violence; online games; blue whale challenge; Communication. Mass media; P87-96; Blue whale
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.30958/ajmmc.8-1-3; https://doaj.org/article/883bc12d00c94d9399c926798c5ae164

The aim of this study is to examine the negative attitude and prejudice of the media reflected in news articles about the relationship between ‘online games and suicidal youth’. This study analyzed the content of the news and the language of the media used for young people who committed suicide related to playing Blue Whale Challenge in different social settings. In this study, news articles in three different countries were examined with the content analysis method, using the content descriptors of Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB). In the news concerning young people who committed suicide and used this game, it was clearly observed that sources of influence involved attitudes towards online games, developed in part through the messages of the media, and that social conditions, including generational experiences, were influential in creating the media messages.