>>117099162Oh well no argument there.
Media I'd argue though is a reflection of reality, media produced has elements of reality in it because how could it not? Therefore it also reifies reality for people, and people will relate their own reality to it if they are of the disposition to do so. Certain people fit these requirements but overall media and fiction have a more cyclic and parasocial/feeding relationship with each other than simply one affecting the other in only one direction.
Of course, reality exists without media and first and foremost. But reality, and what we see as it, reinforces itself through various institutions and media is one of the ways in which it does.
Suicide in general is very contagious socially, which Freud would nail down to the death instinct rather than media influence. Case in point why reporting on suicide makes it happen more often, yes, but also why suicide in a circle group immediately increases chances around the victim that they will commit suicide too.
There were also Mount Mihara in Japan where lover would commit suicide there in droves when they could not be together or felt the world was too cruel for them. It started off small then before you knew it a bunch of people were jumping into a volcano together until they stopped reporting it and built fences and barricades to stop the several lovers suicides that happened a week.
Suicide ,violence and sex are all tied to instincts within us that are "awakened" in some and it happens without media as well.
