Okay, So I was really sick this week with a fever and asthma attacks and there wasn't any chance of me going in to college. Which annoys me because I was doing so well with these blog posts by going to every class, taking notes and then knowing what to write about. But now I have to look up the notes only and then ramble on about them, hoping I get it right. and without further ado, I bring you my next ramble which is about 'Moral Panic'.
When I first read the line 'moral panic' for some reason my head went straight to the over the top ebola panic that was across the world. But then I read a bit more and I then assumed it was talking about how media reacts to some form of Youth Behaviour and I thought about the implementation of twitter/facebook to reality shows for example.
But now I think the idea behind it is how youth always have something new that spreads out and gets lot's of coverage. Punks, Rockers, Mods, Emo's ,(like myself... that was a joke because of my fringe), hipsters, etc.
Then Moral Outrage can lead to group solidarity. Moral Outrage is like when people go overboard to show everybody how wrong this new thing, that they don't bother to understand, is.
Boy was dared to kill a girl by his facebook friends? Facebook is clearly the problem.
Emo's wear black and are antisocial? Must be an evil satanic cult.
Party Goes Viral? There is a threat here, somehow...
My closing statement is that people judge what they cannot bother to understand. And the media feeds on this because it adds new stories and attention through these misunderstandings. We don't consider that fact that we are hurting people by judging them without reason. And that is why people are idiots.
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