Goode and Nehuda’s 5 key features of moral panic: 

Concern: make (someone) anxious or worried. 

Hostility: hostile behaviour; unfriendliness or opposition. 

Consensus: a general agreement. 

Disproportionality: unequal or out of proportion. 

Volatility: liability to change rapidly and unpredictably, especially for the worse. 

Moral panic on case study 2: 

Concern-

Hostility-

Consensus-

Disproportionality- The statistics used here are intended to shock readers, due to the high amount of time spent and kills achieved on ‘Combat Arms.’ However, it may be argued that E-Sports competitors would spend similar amounts of time on video games, and that does not instantly determine that they too will go out and murder people. 

Volatility-