How Moral panics affects us?: How Moral panics affects us?
Threats to the stability of life as society accommodates the new media. The moral panic around cyber-porn, for example Young people were cyber competent while their parents and teachers were not. Panic reflects the fear of the powerful faced the powerless others The emerging media threaten established profits, existing social structures, job security and redundancy of respected skills Slide12: For some people the effect of this negative is pervasive fear that can result in an avoidance of the new medium. New medium carries stories on violent videos, pornography on the Net The Internet is feared for its ability to remove individuals psychologically from their social setting ( the phone, the television, the book) Slide13: Those that fear new technology – who panic at the release of yet more powerful tools into the hands of individuals, business and government. There may be people uncomfortable in a world where services are accessed, goods purchased and transactions increasingly mediated
