Blacksburg, UNITED STATES: Virginia Tech student Karan Grewal speaks to the media in Blacksburg, Virginia, 19 April, 2007. Grewal's roommate, Cho Seung-Hui, went on a shooting spree killing over 30 students and faculty members and himself earlier in the week.Three days after the United States' deadliest school shootings, Americans were shocked by a video posted mid-massacre by student Cho Seung-Hui, casting himself as a long-suffering martyr forced to gun down more than 30 people. "You have blood on your hands," the black-clad South Korean gunman ranted in one of several video files sent to NBC News in New York on the morning of his deadly rampage through the classrooms of Virginia Tech University. AFP PHOTO/MANNIE GARCIA (Photo credit should read MANNIE GARCIA/AFP/Getty Images)
Virginia Tech student Karan Grewal speaks to the media in Blacksburg, Virginia, 19 April, 2007. (Getty Images)

Me is for Media

April 20, 2007

If Cho was acutely aware of his media image, so were many VT students who narrated their experience to the world. Thomas de Zengotita, author of Mediated: How the Media Shapes Your World and the Way You Live in it, talks about the fusion of reality and representation.

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