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 …

ABSTRACT When Stuart Hall and his Birmingham School colleagues argued that media
technologies were essential to the production of moral panics, they focused on the …

This chapter provides an overview of the dominant approaches to understanding the impact
of mediation on media consumers. Before approaching the topic regarding video games …

The unexpected rise of populist parties and candidates across developed democracies and
the recent uptick in political violence in countries such as Myanmar, Sri Lanka, and India …

Nearly five billion people around the world now use social media, and this number
continues to grow. One of the primary goals of social media platforms is to capture and …

The vast majority of adults and teenagers living in an affluent society use social media on a
daily basis (see, eg, Duggan and Smith 2013 for data about the USA). Increasingly, even …

Considerable interest has recently emerged among communication scholars around what
has been called the 'information disorder', that is, a constellation of media genres that …

Social media platforms such as Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter are enormously popular:
they are continuously ranked among the most frequently accessed websites worldwide …

Perceived as an equalizing force for disenfranchised individuals without a voice, the
importance of social networks as agents of change cannot be ignored. However, in some …

This article examines how paranoia is affectively networked through digital technologies,
political performances, and social media to radicalize white men. Using actor-network theory …