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World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences Vol:2, No:11, 2015 International Science Index, Humanities and Social Sciences Vol:2, No:11, 2015 waset.org/abstracts/31980 The Columbine Shooting in German Media Coverage: A Point of No Return Authors : Melanie Verhovnik Abstract : School shootings are a well-known phenomenon in Germany, 14 of which have occurred to date. The first case happened half a year after the April 20th, 1999 Columbine shooting in the United States, which was at the time the most serious school shooting to have occurred anywhere in the world. The German media gave only scant attention to the subject of school shootings prior to Columbine, even though there were numerous instances of it throughout the world and several serious instances in the United States during the 1990s. A mixed method design of qualitative and quantitative content analysis was employed in order to demonstrate the main features and characteristics of core German media’s coverage of Columbine. Keywords : Columbine, media coverage, qualitative, quantitative content analysis, school shooting Conference Title : ICSCACIR 2015 : 17th International Conference on Socio-Cultural, Anthropology, Criminology and International Relations Conference Location : Venice, Italy Conference Dates : November 09-10, 2015 International Scholarly and Scientific Research & Innovation 2(11) 2015 1082 scholar.waset.org/1999.39/31980