id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentences	flesch	summary	cache	txt
cord-024385-peakgsyp	Walsh, James P	Social media and moral panics: Assessing the effects of technological change on societal reaction	2020-03-28		.txt	text/plain	6802	388	34	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. 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. Beyond expanding the profile of moral entrepreneurs, the networked and digital configuration of social media can also be marshalled to distort information flows, promote 8 International Journal of Cultural Studies 00 (0) incendiary content, and channel user experience and engagement. Here, the digital surveillance and marketing infrastructures that underpin social media's profitability permit computational modelling of user data, promising greater awareness of audiences and encouraging claims-making practices involving extensive narrowcasting; behavioural and psychometric profiling; and the production of predictive knowledge.	./cache/cord-024385-peakgsyp.txt	./txt/cord-024385-peakgsyp.txt