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Beyond Moral Panic: Negotiation Theory and the University Strikes in Nigeria
Published 2015-05-01“…“Moral panic” is a concept of growing importance in the social sciences. …”“Moral panic” is a concept of growing importance in the social sciences. It has to do with the emotional reaction of the media, the public, and agents of social control to an emerging or anticipated social problem. My paper uses this concept to portray how Nigerians react to the incessant industrial...
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Trafficking in people in Serbia: Between moral panic and social strategy
Published 2005-01-01Get full textThis paper deals with analysis of different levels of defining understanding, and dealing in general terms with trafficking in people problems in Serbia -from legal regulation and state organs that implement laws in practice, through domestic non-governmental and international organizations, to medi...
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VIOLENCE AND EDUCATION: RESISTANCE AND INVENTIVENESS TO MORAL PANIC, MEDIA ATTACKS, AND THREATS TO SCHOOLS
Published 2025-06-01Get full textTexto do Editorial na versão em inglês da Chamada Temática intitulada "VIOLÊNCIAS E EDUCAÇÃO: RESISTÊNCIAS E INVENTIVIDADES AO PÂNICO MORAL, AOS ATAQUES NAS MÍDIAS E AS AMEAÇAS ÀS ESCOLAS"
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Authoritarian Securitisation and Moral Panic: The Discourse and Role of the Senate in the 2023 Thai Election
Published 2025-08-01“…Affectively, the narratives reflected moral panic in relation to the youth-led change in attitudes towards the monarchy. …”In Thailand's 2023 election, an appointed Senate controlled who became prime minister. To better understand the thinking of key actors in this critical moment, this paper examines the discourse of senators who publicly commented prior to the 13 July joint sitting of the Thai parliament, where e...
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Actual Policing in Virtual Reality - A Cause of Moral Panic or a Justified Need?
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There’s just huge anxiety: ontological security, moral panic, and the decline in young people’s mental health and well-being in the UK
Published 2019-08-01Subjects: Get full textThis study aims to critically discuss factors associated with a recent dramatic rise in recorded mental health issues amongst UK youth. It draws from interviews and focus groups undertaken with young people, parents and professionals. We offer valuable new insights into significant issues affecting...
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Highlighting the Role of Morality in News Framing and Its Short-Term Effects on Stock Market Fluctuations
Published 2025-06-01“…The Model of Intuitive Morality and Exemplars (MIME) suggests that news audiences, including investors, evaluate news based on their moral frames, and that these moral evaluations shape behavior. …”The Model of Intuitive Morality and Exemplars (MIME) suggests that news audiences, including investors, evaluate news based on their moral frames, and that these moral evaluations shape behavior. We extracted moral signals from 382,185 news articles across an 8-month period and examined their predic...
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Between the Mediatic and the Mediumistic: Haunted Media in Contemporary Horror Cinema
Published 2025-07-01“…The analysis delves into the moral panic and techno-fetishism inherent in media history, emphasizing how communication tools blur the lines between the mediatic and the mediumistic. …”The paper examines the interplay between media and the supernatural in contemporary horror cinema, focusing on the concept of haunted media—communication technologies that become conduits for metaphysical malevolence. Drawing from the theoretical frameworks of Jeffrey Sconce’s media hauntology and J...
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The Ethics of Social Life in Sidonie de la Houssaye’s Louisiana Tales
Published 2025-06-01“…In the context of this special issue on good and evil, the poorly known children’s tales offer insight into these pernicious tensions that persisted under the surface of moral victory after the Civil War. La Houssaye’s lessons for children take up the moral panic of a Louisiana reckoning with its legacies of racial violence and cultural erasure. …”Creole writer Sidonie de la Houssaye (1820–1894) registered the threat of anglophone dominance after the Civil War on behalf of a host of characters drawn from the geographies and ideologies in and around her home in Louisiana. Her little-known literary tales depict the period as a cultural and ling...
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Facing One’s Villains
Published 2019-09-01“…Some of these characterizations perpetuate moral panic regarding women. Examples of evil agents range from the biological, disease agents and radiation, to human perpetrators of scams and other illegal or dangerous activities. …”This paper discusses the ways in which qualia deriving from color, shape, and other features are used to indicate evil and social ills in Japan, often through anthropomorphized characterizations as villains. Contemporary depictions of such villains echo themes of religious and folkloric historical...
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„Tlusté“ tělo v normalizačním Československu: povinná zdatnost a gender v kampani proti obezitě
Published 2016-07-01“…By examining expert and media discourses, the article argues that the campaign against obesity served as a means to construct a proper socialist body and induce a moral panic about the state of socialism.…”This article analyses anti-obesity discourse in post-war Czechoslovakia, particularly in the country’s late socialist period. The article conceives of the discourse on obesity as a tool of biopolitical, rather than totalitarian, power, examining the ways expert knowledge, power, and morality worked...
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Football and sex: The 2006 FIFA World Cup and sex trafficking
Published 2008-01-01“…The staging of the 2006 Federation of International Football Association (FIFA) World Cup brought together a wide ranging coalition of interests in fuelling a moral panic around sex trafficking in Europe. This coalition of diverse groups aimed to protect innocent third world women and prevent organized crime networks from luring them into the sex industry. …”The staging of the 2006 Federation of International Football Association (FIFA) World Cup brought together a wide ranging coalition of interests in fuelling a moral panic around sex trafficking in Europe. This coalition of diverse groups aimed to protect innocent third world women and prevent organi...
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Critical Academy under Attack
Published 2023-09-01“…Signifiers like “critical theory”, “critical race theory” and “gender theory” have become objects of antagonism and moral panic for a diverse cast of political, cultural and media actors, including self-styled academic dissidents with audiences well beyond the academy. …”Scholars working within different critical theory traditions are not unfamiliar with the experience of encountering dismissive representations of their work, including from parts of the academy that disavow the politics of academic research and knowledge production. However, the political project o...
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A New Regime of Governing Childhood? Finland as an Example
Published 2006-12-01“…We assume the resulting improved investment, moral panic and social control are aimed at firmly linking childhood to the social economic goals of success in the markets of global capitalism, although we do not presently have a comprehensive picture of what is going on with regard to Finnish socio-legal practices. …”Children's problems have become familiar to the Finnish public since the media has portrayed many children as being 'at risk of exclusion' or involved in delinquent acts. The new public concern for children and childhood has been followed by interests in regulating and intervening...
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Aggressive technologic impact on mass consciousness against the background of East Ukrainian conflict. Setting the stage and first myths
Published 2016-08-01“…Russia was created a powerful diversified technological product that covered the Ukrainian revolution in exclusively negative emphasis - as rebellion fascists, nationalists, perverts, etc; - a commitment of pro-Russian citizens of Ukraine to panic by deliberately disseminated rumors of fictional danger from legions of nationalists who allegedly will punish all dissenters, setting fascist social order in Crimea and the East.…”The author analyzes the external manipulation of public consciousness of Ukrainian citizens. He shows this effect as an integral part of the war that Russia wages against Ukraine. The article highlighted preparation of public consciousness at least by part of the Ukrainian. Because of this training...
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To Talk or not to Talk? Reflections on Central Bank Communication in Times of Crises
Published 2009-03-01“…Crowding out of private information, potential fuelling of banking panics and moral hazard are few of the problems that could threaten the performance of a central bank in communicating to its various audience.…”During the last decade, central bank communication and transparency became undisputable conditions of an effective monetary policy. Central banks around the world seek to consolidate their credibility by communicating effectively their policy goals to the financial markets and the public at large. N...
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Ram raiding the colony: Māori youth crime in capitalist ideology
Published 2025-10-01“…Looking to the contemporary neoliberal era, we argue that moral panics about ram raids continue this colonial ideology of delinquentisation. …”The 2023 New Zealand general election was marked by media narratives about a youth crime crisis, with special emphasis placed on ram raids and the Māori children and young people blamed for perpetrating them. We show that empirical data do not support the claim that youth crime is surging, and argue...
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