Public fear, and those responsible for creating or promoting it, are major topics of discussion these days. The sociological and criminological concept known as moral panic offers valuable insights ...
Internet debates have a way of flattening important issues into little more than hashtags. Serious studies of propaganda and misinformation have been undermined by politicians who call any ...
A moral panic is the pervasive belief that some great wickedness is threatening society and must be stopped. Calling something a moral panic is a way to argue that people's fears or concerns are silly ...