moral panic

a feeling of fear spread among many people that some evil threatens the wellbeing of society.  It is “the process of arousing social concern over an issue – usually the work of moral entrepreneurs and the mass media” [a dictionary of sociology]

The mass media has become a key player in creating a ‘focus’ for this evil to be represented – even if the group in question is not consciously engaged in said issue. AN example of the mass media pushing a moral panic would be the red scare (mccarthyism, 1947)

 Stanley Cohen states that moral panic happens when “a condition, episode, person or group of persons emerges to become defined as a threat to societal values and interests”.

Fandom

1. Music Video: Ghost Town
2. Music Video: Letter to the Free
3. On-line Marketing: Maybeline campaign
4. Film: Chicken
5. Radio: War of the Worlds
6. Radio: Life Hacks
7. Newspaper: Daily Mail
8. Newspaper: The i
9, Advertising (print): Score
+ 1 unseen product (= 10 CSPs)

Theories to learn

> Semiotics
> Genre
> Narrative
> Postcolonialism
> Representation
> Feminist Critical thinking
> Liberal Free Press
> Transformation of Public Sphere
> PSB
> Ideology
> Audience theories
> passive / active
> reception theory / theory of preferred reading
> Cultivation theory
> Culture, politics, history
> (Fandom / Moral Panic)

Theorists to learn

~ Barthes ~ Pierce ~ Saussure
~ Neale
~ Todorov ~ Propp ~ Levi-Strauss ~ Chatman ~ Freytag

~ Gilroy ~ Said ~ Fanon

~ Butler ~ Mulvey ~ Van Zoonen ~ Hooks

~ Habermas ~ Curran ~ Seaton ~ Livingston & Lunt ~ Hesmondhalgh

~ Gerbner ~ Hall ~ Lasswell ~ Lasarzfeld ~ Shirky ~ Jenkins

~ Giddens ~ Gauntlett

~ McDougall / Fenton