issue starts on page 173 of the July issue of the year 2000. This article caught my

attention because violence has seemed to be increasing lately in my view and would like to

read further into the study of how violence is broken down.

People have wondered and have committed a large amount of effort and time to

find the reason why and where collective violence breaks out. Analyst have typically

treated riot events as independent from others, when they are not. People see information

of one act that can have an affect of future acts of the same nature. one must first

understand how influences are transmitted, flows, and is received through communication

process to understand collective violence or riots.

The first question that the author asks about is the contageousness of the events of

a riot. She asks whether extremely big riots were more likely to break out than small civil

disorders where no one was killed or injured, non were arrested, and not a lot of property

damage was done. The result of the study was that the bigger, more severe riots were

more prone to being contagious and influential to others. This affect

In the last paragraph of the article, she states that there are still many questions

factors are related to mass media.

same way. The differences may be from a number of reasons including characteristics of

psychological effect of additional riots that happen during the time period.

communication network is critical to all three of the major findings in this case. All of the

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