Moral Panics MS3 research

Moral Panics  - Internet

Riots and social networking

http://www.reportr.net/2011/08/11/moral-panic-social-media-and-the-riots-in-england/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2023924/London-riots-2011-BlackBerry-Messenger-shut-unbelievable.html

Happy slapping and Youtube

http://www.metro.co.uk/news/104998-you-tube-should-face-happy-slapping-charges

Grooming and instant messaging/forums

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2154624/A-Facebook-crime-40-minutes-12-300-cases-linked-site.html

Academic research

Folk Devils and Moral Panics - Stanley Cohen

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=_mITYS47AU0C&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

There is a long history of moral panics about the alleged harmful effects of exposure to popular media and cultural forms – comics and cartoons, popular theatre, cinema, rock music, video nasties, computer games, internet porn.

Moral panics + the internet

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/jan/17/television.digitalmedia

Moral Panics over the Internet

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