Isolation behind screens, not video games, drives school shootings

Evidence

Contrary to what is often asserted, it is probably not video games that make otherwise calm and disciplined boys commit school massacres, but rather their isolation behind screens, without this inimitable (and indispensable) form of communion that is bodily communication. — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 287

Categorization

• XREF: Reverses the moral-panic link between violent games and school shooters — a pattern echo of the moral-panics literature. — connects to: Group isolation drives violence by filtering outside information and depersonalizing victims — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 4148
• QUESTION: Worth checking: what evidence grounds this causal claim, and does it hold up against the data on shooter isolation?
• CANDY: A pithy contrarian talking point on the video-game-violence panic.

Broader Connections

• Group isolation drives violence by filtering outside information and depersonalizing victims #corroborates (0.85) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 4148