#WakeUpAmerica, #IllegalsAreCriminals: the role of the cyber public sphere in the perpetuation of the Latino cyber-moral panic in the US

Flores-Yeffal, Nadia Y.; Vidales, Guadalupe; Martinez, Girsea

doi:10.1080/1369118x.2017.1388428

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“…technologies (for example, see Flores-Yeffal et al, 2019;Hier, 2018;Marwick, 2008;Wright, 2017). Despite their insight and contributions, knowledge of social media's diverse effects remains scattered and fragmentary.…”

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“…Accentuating such dynamics is not intended to dismiss received perspectives but to invigorate them, promoting more holistic consideration of the implications of new media. To be sure, a handful of works have provided commentary on or case studies of social media and cognate technologies (for example, see Flores-Yeffal et al, 2019; Hier, 2018; Marwick, 2008; Wright, 2017). Despite their insight and contributions, knowledge of social media’s diverse effects remains scattered and fragmentary.…”

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Social media and moral panics: Assessing the effects of technological change on societal reaction

Walsh

2020

International Journal of Cultural Studies

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Answering calls for deeper consideration of the relationship between moral panics and emergent media systems, this exploratory article assesses the effects of social media – web-based venues that enable and encourage the production and exchange of user-generated content. Contra claims of their empowering and deflationary consequences, it finds that, on balance, recent technological transformations unleash and intensify collective alarm. Whether generating fear about social change, sharpening social distance, or offering new opportunities for vilifying outsiders, distorting communications, manipulating public opinion, and mobilizing embittered individuals, digital platforms and communications constitute significant targets, facilitators, and instruments of panic production. The conceptual implications of these findings are considered.

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Social media and moral panics: Assessing the effects of technological change on societal reaction

Walsh

2020

International Journal of Cultural Studies

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“…Flores-Yeffal, Vidales, and Marinez’s (2017) recent study of the ‘Latino cyber-moral panic’ (LCMP) is a case in point. Based on data gathered from a ‘netnography’ investigating how moral panic can be quickly spread through the ‘cyber-public sphere’, Flores-Yeffal et al examine how online interactions (e.g.…”

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“…They specifically demonstrate how claims made by politicians, CEOs, media hosts, and pundits were disseminated and recycled through online ‘grassroots’ moral entrepreneurism associated with the hashtag #IllegalsAreCriminals (between December 2015 and October 2016, they were able to identify 23 Facebook sites supported by six million members). “The Internet,” Flores et al (2017: 15) conclude, “becomes a platform where comments, images, videos, filter bubbles, and use of hashtags facilitate and speed up social communication … [and] allows moral panics against Latinos to flourish, increasing the number of people exposed to anti-immigrant narratives.”…”

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Moral panics and digital-media logic: Notes on a changing research agenda

Hier

2018

Crime, Media, Culture

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This research note critically comments on the lack of attention that moral panic scholars are devoting to the ways in which changing digital media formats are reshaping the dynamics of interaction involved in public claims-making, modes of audience engagement, and techniques of regulation and control. Angela McRobbie and Sarah Thornton’s seminal deconstruction of conventional moral panic studies is used as a point of departure to supplement the logic of mass mediation with insights into some of the structuring principles that ground the logic of digital mediation.

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“…Although social media has created a number of opportunities for individuals to garner social support on the web [ 1 , 2 , 12 - 14 ], it also has the potential to negatively impact vulnerable individuals. Recent studies have highlighted how social media can be used to harass, discriminate [ 15 , 16 ], dox [ 17 ], and socially disenfranchise individuals [ 18 - 20 ]. Some research even suggests that social media use may be a contributing factor to the significant increase in suicide rates and depressive symptoms among adolescents in the past decade [ 1 , 21 , 22 ].…”

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Examining the Self-Harm and Suicide Contagion Effects of the Blue Whale Challenge on YouTube and Twitter: Qualitative Study

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Madathil²,

Dixon³

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JMIR Ment Health

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Background Research suggests that direct exposure to suicidal behaviors and acts of self-harm through social media may increase suicidality through imitation and modeling, particularly in more vulnerable populations. One example of a social media phenomenon that demonstrates how self-harming behavior could potentially be propagated is the blue whale challenge. Objective This paper aimed to investigate the way individuals portray the blue whale challenge on social media, with an emphasis on factors that could pose a risk to vulnerable populations. Methods We first used a thematic analysis approach to code 60 publicly posted YouTube videos, 1112 comments on those videos, and 150 Twitter posts that explicitly referenced the blue whale challenge. We then deductively coded the YouTube videos based on the Suicide Prevention Resource Center (SPRC) safe messaging guidelines as a metric for the contagion risk associated with each video. Results The thematic analysis revealed that social media users post about the blue whale challenge to raise awareness and discourage participation, express sorrow for the participants, criticize the participants, or describe a relevant experience. The deductive coding of the YouTube videos showed that most of the videos violated at least 50% of the SPRC safe and effective messaging guidelines. Conclusions These posts might have the problematic effect of normalizing the blue whale challenge through repeated exposure, modeling, and reinforcement of self-harming and suicidal behaviors, especially among vulnerable populations such as adolescents. More effort is needed to educate social media users and content generators on safe messaging guidelines and factors that encourage versus discourage contagion effects.

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#WakeUpAmerica, #IllegalsAreCriminals: the role of the cyber public sphere in the perpetuation of the Latino cyber-moral panic in the US

Cited by 36 publications

References 24 publications

Social media and moral panics: Assessing the effects of technological change on societal reaction

Social media and moral panics: Assessing the effects of technological change on societal reaction

Moral panics and digital-media logic: Notes on a changing research agenda

Examining the Self-Harm and Suicide Contagion Effects of the Blue Whale Challenge on YouTube and Twitter: Qualitative Study

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