A mix of popular media references (most but not all to Japanese suicides) and a few academic articles follow FYI (academic articles first) Savin-Williams, R. C. and G. L. Ream (2003) "Suicide Attempts among Sexual-Minority Male Youth", Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 32 (4), p. 509. Becker, K., M. El-Faddagh and M. H. Schmidt (2004) "Cybersuicide or Werther-Effect Online: Suicide Chatrooms or Forums in the World Wide Web", Kindheit und Entwicklung, 13 (1), p. 14. Becker, K., et al. (2004) "Parasuicide Online: Can Suicide Websites Trigger Suicidal Behaviour in Predisposed Adolescents?" Nordic Journal of Psychiatry, 58 (2), p. 111. Prasad, V. and D. Owens (2001) "Using the Internet as a Source of Self-Help for People Who Self-Harm", Psychiatric Bulletin, 25 (6), pp. 222-225. http://pb.rcpsych.org/cgi/content/abstract/25/6/222 Rajagopal, S. (2004) "Suicide Pacts and the Internet", BMJ, 329 (7478), pp. 1298-1299. http://bmj.bmjjournals.com Craig, O. (2003) Chatmates Watched Internet Suicide Last accessed: Last updated: 2003/02/09/ Address: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2003%2F02%2F09% 2Fwsuic09.xml&secureRefresh=true&_requestid=108966 Kennedy, H. M. T. (2003) He Takes Fatal Od as Internet Pals Watch: Chatroom Vultures Egged Him to Pop More Rx Pills Last accessed: Last updated: 2003/02/01/ Address: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ story/56497p-52905c.html Nichols, J. (2003) Net Friends Faulted in Online Overdose Last accessed: Last updated: 2003/02/05/ Address: http:// arizonarepublic.com/arizona/articles/0205webfolo.html Wark, P. and R. DiGirolamo (2003) Self-Oblivion Just a Click Away Last accessed: Last updated: 2003/02/07/ Address: http:// www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,5947888%255E13762,00.html Fiedler, G. and R. Lindner (2001) "Suicide Fora on the Internet" http://www.magpiebridge.net/suicidefora.htm Doctorow, C. (2002) Searching Google for Suicide Boing Boing Last accessed: Dec 18 2002 Last updated: Dec 10 2002 Address: http:// boingboing.net/2002_12_01_archive.html#90036289. Parry, R. L. (2005) "Suicide, the Net and Death with a Stranger". in The Times, 30 June 2005, http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/article/ 0,,19509-1673850,00.html Cobain, I. (2005) "Clampdown on Chatrooms after Two Strangers Die in First Internet Death Pact". in The Guardian, 11 Oct 2005, http:// www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1589260,00.html Harding, A. (2004) Japan's Internet 'Suicide Clubs' BBC Last accessed: 9 Sep 2005 Last updated: Address: http://news.bbc.co.uk/ 1/hi/programmes/newsnight/4071805.stm. --- David Brake, Doctoral Student in Media and Communications, London School of Economics & Political Science <http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/media@lse/study/ mPhilPhDMediaAndCommunications.htm> Also see http://davidbrake.org/ (home page), http://blog.org/ (personal weblog) and http://get.to/lseblog (academic groupblog) Author of Dealing With E-Mail - <http://davidbrake.org/ dealingwithemail/> callto://DavidBrake (Skype.com's Instant Messenger and net phone)