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Gerüchte gedeihen besonders gut in einer Atmosphäre der Angst und Panik. Sie können für politische Zwecke instrumentalisiert werden, wenn sie nicht sogar eigens dafür erfunden werden. Homosexualität ist in diesem Kontext schon lange ein beliebtes Thema. Karin Bruns untersucht anhand von Beispielen aus Nordeuropa und Nordamerika Strategien des Snitching, Whistleblowing und emanzipierende Sichtbarmachungen. Dabei spielt die zunehmende Offenheit über sexuelle Identitäten von Personen des öffentlichen Interesses in den ‹alten› Medien wie Presse und Fernsehen sowie in den digitalen, sozialen Medien eine Rolle. In der Popkultur kann ein Outing sich positiv auf die Authentizität oder den Glamour-Faktor eines Stars auswirken, während in Bereichen wie Sport, Religion oder beispielsweise im Rahmen der Anti-Obama-Kampagnen Homophobie durch die Verbreitung altbekannter heteronormativer Narrative verstärkt wird. Der Text skizziert Logiken der Bildzirkulation im Netz, z. B. in Bezug auf die Gleichzeitigkeit der Verurteilung Chelsea Mannings und die positive Rezeption des Transgendermodels Carmen Carrera, und zeigt: Gerüchte können immer unkontrollierbare Auswirkungen haben. ; Rumors flourish within atmospheres of fear or panic. Rumors can be instrumentalized, if not conjured up, for political purposes, and homosexuality has been one of their favorite topics. Karin Bruns investigates strategies of snitching, whistleblowing, and emancipatory visualizations through examples from Northern Europe and North America, taking into account the increased openness about the sexual identities of public persons as well as the media effects of ‹old›, printed or broadcasted, and of digital, Social Media. Within popular culture, an outing within the so-called Word of Mouth Marketing may have effects of authenticity, glamor and/or openness, while the domains of sports, religion, or anti-Obama campaigns reinforce homophobia by spreading well-known heteronormative narratives. Sketching the web-based logics of circulating images in the simultaneity of condemning Chelsea Manning and celebrating the transgender model Carmen Carrera, the article shows that rumors may always cause uncontrollable effects.

Moral Panics in the Contemporary World represents the best current theoretical and empirical work on the topic, taken from the international conference on moral panics held at Brunel University. The range of contributors, from established scholars to emerging ones in the field, and from a working journalist as well, helps to cover a wide range of moral panics, both old and new, and extend the geographical scope of moral panic analysis to previously underrepresented areas. Designed from the outset to comprise a coherent and integrated set of viewpoints which share a common engagement with criti

This study provides a comprehensive critique - forensic, historical, and theoretical - of the moral panic paradigm, using empirically grounded ethnographic research to argue that the panic paradigm suffers from fundamental flaws that make it a myth rather than a viable academic perspective

"Masturbation, vampires, cannibalism, bareback pornography, menstruation, sex education, and more. These issues provoke the moral panics of sexuality, the often unspoken and politically charged targets for accusations of deviance and threats to the existing social order. A provocative and path-breaking book, this interdisciplinary edited collection showcases the range of historical and contemporary crises we too often suppress. From closeted gay Republicans and vagina dentata imagery, to cyber pinkwashing and sex surrogates for the disabled, these cutting edge essays draw from established and emerging scholars and span over three centuries of sexual panics. Provocative, surprising, engaging, and even shocking, this collection pulls together strange bedfellows and unlikely allies in the fight against the hypocritical, reductive, and dismissive voices promoting unnecessary panic. If you're panicking, you're not thinking."--Publisher's description.

Introduction: Scroungerphobia revisited: shirker-bashing and feral freak-shows -- Moral panics, scapegoating and the persistence of pauper folk-devils -- Problem families and 'the workless': the rhetorical roots of shirkerphobia -- Framing the poor: images of welfare and poverty in today's press -- Deliberating deservingness: the public's role in constructing scroungers -- Incidental scroungers: normalizing anti-welfarism in wider press narratives -- Conclusion: From division to unity: a manifesto for rebuilding trust -- Appendices: Framing analysis methodology -- Sentiment analysis methodology.

Moral panic theory and school education -- Alcohol and illicit drug education -- Physical fitness and obesity -- Sexuality education -- Racism and islamophobia -- Pedagogy and curriculum -- Media and youth -- Teaching standards, assessment and testing regimes -- Buildings and school facilities -- Bringing it all together.

Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Moral Panic Concept -- PART I THE EVOLUTION OF THE MORAL PANIC CONCEPT -- Overview of Part I -- 1 The Genealogy and Trajectory of the Moral Panic Concept -- 2 Tracking Moral Panic as a Concept -- 3 Assemblages of Moral Politics: Yesterday and Today -- 4 The Problems with Moral Panic: The Concept's Limitations -- PART II SEX PANICS -- Overview of Part II -- 5 Public Punitiveness, Mediation, and Expertise in Sexual Psychopath Policies -- 6 Revelation and Cardinals' Sins: Moral Panic over "Pedophile Priests" in the United States -- 7 The Demise of the Same Sex Marriage Panic in Massachusetts -- 8 Considering the Agency of Folk Devils -- PART III MEDIA PANICS -- Overview of Part III -- 9 From Nickel Madness to the House of Dreams: Moral Panic and the Emergence of American Cinema -- 10 Sexual Predators, Internet Addiction, and Other Media Myths: Moral Panic and the Disappearance of Brandon Crisp -- 11 MyMoralPanic: Adolescents, Social Networking, and Child Sex Crime Panic -- PART IV MORAL PANICS OVER CHILDREN AND YOUTH -- Overview of Part IV -- 12 Moral Panics and the Young: The James Bulger Murder, 1993 -- 13 Children Pushed Aside: Moral Panic over the Family and the State in Contemporary Poland -- 14 Moral Panics versus Youth Problem Debates: Three Conceptual Insights from the Study of Japanese Youth -- PART V MORAL PANICS AND GOVERNANCE -- Overview of Part V -- 15 Governing Through Moral Panic: The Governmental Uses of Fear -- 16 Hidden in Plain Sight: Moral Panics and the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro -- 17 Intermedia Agenda Setting and the Construction of Moral Panics: On the Media and Policy Influence of Steven Soderbergh's Traffic -- 18 I Vote and I Tote: Moral Panics, Resistance, and the Failure of Quiet Regulation.