New media, new panics

Ingraham, Chris; Reeves, Joshua

doi:10.1080/15295036.2016.1227863

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“…Of course, these opportunities for social and cultural exploration are happening in a hostile arena—the current iteration of the Internet. Ingraham and Reeves (2016) make the case that social media platforms and online connectivity only provide the illusion of effective free speech to digital citizens, who ultimately remain politically powerless. Additionally, even while youth attempt to intervene in their own subordination and subvert smartphone technology, techno-capitalist corporations repackage these subversions as a marketable feature of the next generation of commodities while continuously extracting value through surveillance and data harvesting (Rai, 2015; Zuboff, 2019).…”

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“…This media panic both enables and reveals state and corporate efforts to retain the cultural status quo while reaping the productivity of a digitizing society. However, modern scholars of media panics rightly point out that the advent of new media has fragmented the production and dissemination of information to individual media users (Ingraham & Reeves, 2016). Therefore, our analysis of mainstream media coverage found heavy emphasis on the perspectives of authoritative experts while only one news article from an alternative, feminist news site featured youth perspectives on their own smartphone use (D’Lima, 2015).…”

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“…Currently, anxiety over smartphones represents modern media panics (Drotner, 1992) or “technopanics” (Marwick, 2008) in which forms of new media are both the source and the medium for the spread of moral panic. The influence of new, smartphone-enabled media have expanded the scope of modern media panics by allowing individuals to themselves broadcast moral panic narratives, resulting in a perpetual state of moral panic permeating online media platforms (Ingraham & Reeves, 2016). Our analysis of news articles explores the media panic narratives around Indian youths’ use of smartphones, revealing the ongoing, often contradictory, interplay between young people, state entities, and corporate interests.…”

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“…Of course, smartphones go hand-in-hand with new social media platforms where moral panic narratives can form and spread. Therefore, while news media shape the mainstream discourse around topical debates by filtering who gets a say in the issue, social media provides the opportunity for individuals to make themselves heard—or at least provides the illusion of power through free speech (Ingraham & Reeves, 2016). Often in mainstream news media, the most scrutinized groups get little say in their representation while powerful socio-political and economic interests exert great influence on media narratives.…”

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Smartphones, youth and moral panics: Exploring print and online media narratives in India

Rao

Lingam

2020

Mobile Media & Communication

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India is a rapidly growing youth market for smartphone technology. Accompanying the spike in Indian youths’ smartphone use is a proliferation of media coverage on the purported impact of smartphones on youths’ physical, psychological, and social well-being. We use a qualitative media analysis to show that the online and print media narratives around this issue reveal widespread fear and anxiety about youths’ smartphone use. We argue that this stems from a moral panic reaction to youths’, particularly young women’s, potential exercise of agency using their smartphones and accessing forbidden content over the internet. This narrative fails to include the potential affordances of internet access for youth and other marginalized people while also failing to address deeper concerns about digitization.

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2020

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“…The plurality of publics involved in moral panics becomes all the more clear when considering the fact that media does not consist of one 'mass' and that, through social media, micro-disputes, some certainly based in morality, play out constantly (Ingraham & Reeves, 2016). As Mary deYoung writes, it is "the pluralism of late modern society…that may open up avenues for folk devils, indeed even already socially marginalized folk devils, to find allies and advocates, build constituencies, and exercise agency" ( 2013, p. 151).…”

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"Fuck Zucc. We Will Not Be Silent": Sex Workers' Fight For Visibility and Against Censorship on Instagram

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As governments begin to mandate corporations to regulate online spaces through legislation like the US government's Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA), information networks integral to the safety and success of sex workers are being threatened. Sex workers use social media to increase their visibility for the purpose of sharing self-representations that challenge hypocritical and detrimental stereotypes of sex workers as victims and/or criminals. However, sex worker activists on Instagram are being subjected to targeted censorship because of their public sex worker identity and for posting images and content that pushes up against and challenges Instagram's rules about nudity. Through a 30 day ethnographic content analysis, this project sought to understand the tactics and strategies that sex workers are engaging in to resist and respond to Instagram's censorship, while attempting to carve out space for themselves on a platform that has a known history of policing deviant female bodies through censorship. I argue that sex workers take up visibility labour and draw on historical patterns of sex worker activism, such as a politics of care and collectivity, to respond to and interrupt Instagram's one-sided and top-down censorship. Thank you first and foremost to my supervisor, Professor Rena Bivens, without whom this project would not have materialized. Thank you, Rena, for your guidance, support, and perhaps above all, your patience with my deadline-missing self. I am honoured to have been able to work with you, and I am grateful for the ways in which you pushed me to be ambitious and far-reaching with this project. I am a much more confident and curious academic thanks to you! To my committee, Professor Sandra Robinson and Professor Jennifer Evans, thank you for the time and care you took in participating in this process, reading my work, and for bringing your invaluable perspectives to this project. Thank you to Sandra for being a mentor and a friend to me throughout this degree, and for encouraging me to apply to grad school in the first place. Sandra, I am immensely grateful for your support and guidance over the past few years, I honestly would not be here if it were not for you. It has been a privilege to have conducted this work within the academic community in Carleton's Communications Department. This department has offered such a welcoming, collaborative and communal environment that has been a joy to be a part of, and I am sad to be leaving. Thank you to Professor Sheryl Hamilton for challenging me in her course and in so doing, showing me that I had a place here. Thank you to Professor Irena Knezevic for always listening and calming my many anxieties about research, especially in that oh-so-stressful first semester of grad school. Thank you also to the Graduate Supervisor, Professor Chris Russill and Professor Josh Greenberg, our Department Chair, for your support as I tackled personal challenges over these two years. The supportive environment of this department has meant the world to me.

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From Text to Hypertext: Electronic Literature in Latin America

Taylor

2019

Electronic Literature in Latin America

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New media, new panics

Cited by 33 publications

References 21 publications

Smartphones, youth and moral panics: Exploring print and online media narratives in India

Smartphones, youth and moral panics: Exploring print and online media narratives in India

"Fuck Zucc. We Will Not Be Silent": Sex Workers' Fight For Visibility and Against Censorship on Instagram

From Text to Hypertext: Electronic Literature in Latin America

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