How Can Social Media Better Support a Community in Mourning?

In the days that followed, we came together as a community and developed a very clear sense that this was our tragedy?that, really, no one else was welcome. The local journalists were overwhelmed by the national media, who set up giant satellite trucks to broadcast live from our parking lots, quads, and pathways. Our administration put up signs informing faculty that we had the right to ask the media to leave our classrooms. I heard from a student that some reporters had passed themselves off as fellow Hokies, listened to the stories of students, and cried beside them before revealing that they were with the media. Interviews were conducted in which students were asked leading questions about how angry they were at our administration. Most of us had strong feelings of sadness and solidarity?even, in many cases, with Cho Seung-Hui, the 33^rd victim, whom our community had also failed. But toward the national media machine?there we felt anger.

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