What are the technical affordances that create content

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I. Mass Media

A. What is the role of the mass media in the creation of moral panics, according to Critcher? Please be nuanced in your response; not only does he distinguishes between various types of media; he has also an intricate explanation about the media's role in the creation of moral panics.

B. Although Best does not use the term "moral panic," his discussion of wilding and freeway violence indicates that they could be understood as cases of moral panic. How (in which way) does Best's chapter fit with Critcher's argument about the relationship between the media and moral panics? Does Best's chapter confirm or challenge Critcher's argument? How?

C. How does Best's chapter about wilding and freeway violence illustrate the socially constructed nature of a social problem? Was there a consensus about what kind of social problem freeway violence was indicative of? If not, what were the different definitions of the problem? And what were the implications of the different definitions? When answering the last part, remember the class discussion: each definition of a social problem has a specific prescription for solutions implied by the definition.

D. How do you think Steffens's chapter relates to the other readings assigned for this session? What was the impact of his crime wave?

II. Social media

The article by Walsh updates moral panic theory with a discussion of the digital/social media's role in the creation moral panics. Walsh argues that despite its potential for democratizing public communication by providing access for wider public, social media also provide tools and venues for manipulating content and provoking more panics about the usual issues and groups.

A. How do social media contribute to more severe moral panics, according to Walsh? What are the technical affordances that create and amplify content and reactions? How are they used to bring fringe ideas into prominence?

B. Walsh discusses some recent moral panics about Covid-19, Brexit and Australian bush fires. What were these moral panics about? Who were the ‘folk devils'? How was the social media central to the creation of these moral panics?

C. What is Walsh's overall argument about the relationship between digital/social media and moral panics?

D. How does Ingraham and Reeves's article, "New Media, New panics" illustrate the social media's role in the creation of moral panics?

E. How do the new, discrete moral panics that are afforded by the new technologies differ from moral panics via traditional media?

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