ABSTRACT
Over the last decades, researchers from across the globe have compiled a significant corpus of research about the effects of media on suicidality (Pirkis & Blood, 2010). With the recent groundswell of support internationally for suicide awareness campaigns to tackle the stigma surrounding suicidality and to prevent suicide, the task to complement research on harmful media effects (i.e., suicide contagion) with research on potential benefits of media discourse on suicidality has become a priority on the suicide research agenda (Niederkrotenthaler, Reidenberg, Till, & Gould, M, 2014).
