A moral panic essentially a 'crusade' against behavior or precieved negative developments in society. Cohen (1972): Argues that a moral panic is when the media exaggerates through the media such as newspapers to an event to refer to its social uses, morality today is not as strong as it once was.It has caused changes in the law including the 1894 video recordings act that gave the BBFC power to classify videos.
Newspapers which run moral panics:
→DAILY MAIL
→DAILY EXPRESS
→NEWS OF THE WORLD
→THE SUN
→THE MIRROR
Norm
- Enjoyment
- Anxious
- Jumpy
- Fear
- Nervous
- Alarm
- Alert
Extreme
- Panic Attacks
- Hysteria - Screaming / Crying
- Fainting
- Heart Attacks
Responsibility to protect them ?
→ Audience
→ BBFC - 18/15
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