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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"Moral Panic"”.
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Sex offender registry acts: Deterrence or moral panic?
… This evolution has been hastened by a moral panic based on bad facts and fueled by strong public opinion in favor of long prison sentences and even longer registration periods. Modern laws have little to do with monitoring and more to do with retribution. Proponents claim these …
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School Shootings and Mental Illness: A Moral Panic
This research uses moral panic theory to investigate the ways in which print media coverage influences the association of mental illness with acts of mass violence in schools. I explore the relationship between the rhetoric of moral entrepreneurs (such as victims' friends and family members, law …
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Moral Panic and Political Rhetoric in the Early American Republic
… and August, 1793. A hybrid form of sociological moral panic theory, focused predominantly on the "iteration" of moral panics and the language used to communicate them, is used to understand the dynamics of the information landscape of 1793. Specific attention is paid to the effects of time and …
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The Missile Gap: A Moral Panic for an Atomic Age
… a large number of strategic weapons. Using moral panic theory, the roles of the President of the United States and the media are examined in facilitating public interest in the manufacture of these weapons from 1955-1990. The project uses both time series and historical analyses to determine …
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Asylum seekers in the UK: a social psychological understanding of a moral panic
… thesis critically investigated the concept of 'moral panic' in relation to the UK response to asylum seekers and considered how the explanatory value of this concept could be enhanced by using social psychological theory to understand the cause and impact of such a moral panic. A theoretical …
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Sexting as Moral Panic: An Exploratory Study into the Media's Construction of Sexting
… a study of sexting as a socially constructed moral panic. Central to a social construction of moral panic perspective is the role the media plays in creating the panic. The purpose of this exploratory study was to make sense of the phenomenon of sexting by analyzing media reports for …
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U.K. youth television: moral panic and the process of U.S. adaptation in Skins
… television are produced in an environment o f moral panic over youth. Y outh programs in the U.K. address the moral panic of"Broken Britain" and create an alternative narrative about youth. This liberating aspect of U.K. youth programs is migrating to the U.S. in the form of shows like Skins …
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Crack as a moral panic: The racial implications inherent to crack and powder cocaine sentencing
… coverage of crack cocaine to determine whether a moral panic ensued during the late 1980's. A content analysis was conducted on the Los Angeles Times from 1985 to 1990, examining both the nature and extent of the Los Angeles Times' coverage of crack cocaine as well as the relationship between this …
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Magic to manic : the evolution of the zombie figure In fiction and its basis In moral panic dissemination
… with the prevalence and dissipation of moral panics. Conclusions on the influence of moral panics on Zombie figures are drawn through a juxtaposition of identified moral panics and the prevalence of Zombie categories. The representation of moral panics in the horror literature produced …
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Corporate Media Framing of Political Rhetoric: The Creation of a Moral Panic in the wake of September 11th 2001
… been able to generate and sustain a national moral panic. While a number of scholars have explored the effect of presidential rhetoric in generating panic (53; Cohen 1972; Goode and Ben-Yehuda 1994; Hawdon 2001; Kappeler and Kappeler 2004), none have evaluated the effect of media framing on …
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The Second Sex of Tomorrow? Constructions of Masculinity in the Moral Panic About Boy's Education. A Content Analysis of Canadian News Media
… of race and class, is erased. I argue that the panic about boys' education must be understood as a backlash against feminism, based on a misreading of economic transformations through a gender lens.
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Race, place and crime through the lens of Toronto’s print media
… To date, there has been no study that examines a moral panic of neighbourhoods. Therefore, this thesis examines how the racialization of crime and the criminalization of place coalesce to create a moral panic of a neighbourhood. To examine the media’s role in creating fear, two Toronto newspapers …
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Mean girls in the press: a content analysis of two Toronto newspapers
… to aggressive girls, or “mean girls,” as a moral panic, which is correlated with the creation of increasingly punitive antibullying policies in North America. Content analysis was used to uncover how news attention to youth aggression around the time of Reena Virk’s murder contributed to …
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Squeegee Punks reunite: safe streets for all: an insider qualitative study
… How did Squeegee Punks in Ontario experience the moral panic surrounding squeegee work? 2) What can the processes surrounding the construction and management of a squeegee punk deviant identity add to our understanding of how people navigate deviant identities? 3) What social and historical …
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DANGEROUS NEW TIKTOK TREND – Sensational Language! A Qualitative Discourse Analysis of TikTok and Facebook Through Similar Scandals
… are discussed through the framework of moral panic, youth-focused technopanics, and Canada's extensive history of both latent and outwardly expressed anti-Asian sentiment. The study shows how historical biases, geopolitical narratives, and youth moral panic potentially influence Canadian …
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The Zimbabwean threat: media representations of immigrants in the South African media
… as Stanley Cohen (1972) who have researched on moral panic. The study analyses the coverage of Zimbabwean immigrant stories in the South African print media from the year 2000 to date. A total of five hundred and seventy five articles were randomly selected from the SA Media Database. The SA …
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The Discursive Production of Subjectivity in Television News: Reflecting the Other on the Obese Child's Body
… surrounding childhood obesity is indicative of a moral panic, where children's bodies are used to express a fear of the destabilization of the normative family structure and a fear of an irrational, excessive, over-consuming society saturated with the subjectivity of the Other.
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One Step Closer to Greater Understanding! Does a Correlation Exist Between Fluid Intelligence and Player Rank in League of Legends?
… video games has historically been influenced by moral panic. Cycles of moral panic tend to revolve around preconceived notions of threats, held at a societal level (typically by older generations). Politicians, quick to capitalize, then advocate for policy change based upon their constituents’ …
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Sexual politics and resistance to law reform: a critique of the South African Law Commission report on women and sexual offences in South Africa
… period the South African public experienced a “moral panic” regarding rape. Public concern extended to concern for the fate of rape victims and their treatment by the criminal justice agencies. This concern was voiced in Parliament. Questions were put to the Minister regarding the procedures …
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