Researchers analyze student grief online after campus shootings

Wednesday, October 20, 2010 - 11:01 in Psychology & Sociology

After the campus shootings at Virginia Tech in 2007 and Northern Illinois University in 2008, hundreds of affected students turned to social media websites to share their grief and search for solace. A new study of these students found that their online activities neither helped nor harmed their long-term psychological health.

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