Steven Stack, Thomas Niederkrotenthaler

• 1 Introduction Part I. Research on Media Impacts on Suicide2 Why Men Choose Firearms More than Women: Gender and the Portrayal of Firearm Suicide in Film, 1900–2013 3 Suicide Stories in the US Media: Rare and Focused on the Young 4 Mass Shootings and Murder-Suicide: Review of the Empirical Evidence for Contagion 5 Internet Bullying Distinguishes Suicide Attempters from Ideators 6 The Use of Social Media in the Aftermath of a Suicide: Findings from a Qualitative Study in England 77 Suicide and Newer Media: The Good, the Bad, and the Googly 8 The Heroic and the Criminal, the Beautiful and the Ugly: Suicide Reflected in the Mirror of the Arts 9 Suicide in Kabuki Theater Part II. Theories of Media Impacts 10 Why Media Coverage of Suicide May Increase Suicide Rates: An Epistemological Review 11 Papageno Effect: Its Progress in Media Research and Contextualization with Findings on Harmful Media Effects 12 The Impact of Suicide Portrayals in Films on Audiences: A Qualitative Study 13 Between Werther and Papageno Effects: A Propositional Meta-Analysis of Ambiguous Findings for Helpful and Harmful Media Effects on Suicide Contagion Part III. Policy 14 Suicide and Mass-Media Reporting: The Very Beginning of the Viennese Experience in the 1980s 15 Development of the US Recommendations for Media Reporting on Suicide 16 Raising Media Awareness in French-Speaking Switzerland: Best Practices 17 Promoting Responsible Portrayal of Suicide: Lessons from the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland 18 Implementing International Media Guidelines in a Local Context: Experiences from Hong Kong 19 Conclusion

Steven Stack, Thomas Niederkrotenthaler

• 1 Introduction Part I. Research on Media Impacts on Suicide2 Why Men Choose Firearms More than Women: Gender and the Portrayal of Firearm Suicide in Film, 1900–2013 3 Suicide Stories in the US Media: Rare and Focused on the Young 4 Mass Shootings and Murder-Suicide: Review of the Empirical Evidence for Contagion 5 Internet Bullying Distinguishes Suicide Attempters from Ideators 6 The Use of Social Media in the Aftermath of a Suicide: Findings from a Qualitative Study in England 77 Suicide and Newer Media: The Good, the Bad, and the Googly 8 The Heroic and the Criminal, the Beautiful and the Ugly: Suicide Reflected in the Mirror of the Arts 9 Suicide in Kabuki Theater Part II. Theories of Media Impacts 10 Why Media Coverage of Suicide May Increase Suicide Rates: An Epistemological Review 11 Papageno Effect: Its Progress in Media Research and Contextualization with Findings on Harmful Media Effects 12 The Impact of Suicide Portrayals in Films on Audiences: A Qualitative Study 13 Between Werther and Papageno Effects: A Propositional Meta-Analysis of Ambiguous Findings for Helpful and Harmful Media Effects on Suicide Contagion Part III. Policy 14 Suicide and Mass-Media Reporting: The Very Beginning of the Viennese Experience in the 1980s 15 Development of the US Recommendations for Media Reporting on Suicide 16 Raising Media Awareness in French-Speaking Switzerland: Best Practices 17 Promoting Responsible Portrayal of Suicide: Lessons from the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland 18 Implementing International Media Guidelines in a Local Context: Experiences from Hong Kong 19 Conclusion