3. moral panic
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Lesson on Moral Panic for NC Media students.TRANSCRIPT
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moral panic
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Lesson objectives
one Understand the concept of moral panic
two Identify when moral panic occurs
in the media
three Understand the process of how moral
panic unfolds
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moral panic The intensity of feeling expressed in a population that appears to threaten the
social order.
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role of the media The media operate as agents of moral imagination, either by
actively crusading, or simply
framing news stories in
dramatic ways that will appeal to consumers.
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Stanley cohen (1975)
Folk Devils and Moral Panics
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Stanley cohen claimed that a
moral panic occurs when condition, episode, person or group of persons emerges to become defined as a threat to
societal values and interests.
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Those who start the panic
when they fear a threat to
prevailing social or cultural
values are known as moral entrepreneurs.
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Those who supposedly
threaten the social order
have been described as folk devils.
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cohen’s study was
primarily about the mods and the rockers of the
1960s and the treatment they received in the public eye.
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The main criticism was that
they were seen as a threat to law and order largely through the
way the mass media represented them, in the form of
what Cohen calls the control culture.
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Largely this refers to the media
sensationalising an event and
then calling for a punishment to be set to persecute the offenders.
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mods, rockers and moral panics
Click on the title to open a video
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characteristics of
a moral panic
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concern There must be awareness that
the behaviour of the group or
category in question is likely to
have a negative impact on
society.
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hostility Hostility towards the group in question increases, and they
become folk devils. Clear
distinctions are drawn
between us and them.
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consensus Widespread acceptance emerges that the group in question poses a very real
threat to society.
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disproportion The action taken is
disproportionate to the
actual threat posed by the group.
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volatility Moral Panics tend to
disappear as quickly as they
appeared, due to a wane in public interest or news reports changing to another topic.
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The objects of moral panic belong to seven clusters of
social identity:
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1. !
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young, working-class, violent males
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2. !
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school violence: bullying and shootouts
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3. !
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wrong drugs: used by wrong people at wrong places
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4. !
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child abuse, satanic rituals and paedophile registers
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5. !
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sex, violence and blaming the media
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6. !
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welfare cheats and single mothers
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7. !
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refugees and asylum seekers
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Audience, Medium and genre