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The 'moral panics' behind television advertising regulations in Malaysia by Mokhtar, Aida

“…A country that is a mélange of diverse ethnic groups would detest the nuances of panic what more of moral panic and this is the case with Malaysia. The friction happening in 1969 that amounted to deaths and injury has led to the promotion on national unity between people whose culture and race are remarkably different and the disproportionate economic backgrounds that the Malays and Chinese encouraged the government to come with a solution for promoting the idea of an equal footing in the economic ownership between the races. …”
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The ‘Moral Panics’ behind television advertising regulation in Malaysia by Mokhtar, Aida

“…Local advertising practitioners express their doubts of the grassroots model of moral panic which guide the decision making of the Censorship Board and voice their opinions supporting the elite-engineering model of moral panic.…”
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The ‘moral panics’ behind television advertising regulations in Malaysia by Mokhtar, Aida

“…A thematic analysis on interviews with key regulatory authorities found that they based their decisions on the moral panics (intense concerns) of Malaysian viewers as defined by the ‘grassroots model’ (Goode and Ben-Yehuda, 1994). …”
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The 'moral panics' behind television advertising regulation in Malaysia by Mokhtar, Aida

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Much ado about nothing? mainstream research, Malaysian media and moral panics by Zaharom Nain, Wang, Lay Kim

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Moral panics or monstrous offenders?: balancing public perceptions of sexual offenders with their offence patterns by Wynn, Chelsea

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Kronic hysteria: Exploring the intersection between Australian synthetic cannabis legislation, the media, and drug-related harm by Bright, Stephen, Bishop, Brian, Kane, Robert, Marsh, Alison, Barratt, Monica

“…These stories were necessarily framed within dominant discourses that served to construct synthetic cannabis as pathogenic and created a ‘moral panic’. Australian state and federal governments reacted to this moral panic by banning individual synthetic cannabinoid agonists. …”
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The Stranger Danger: Exploring Surveillance, Autonomy, and Privacy in Children’s Use of Social Media by Nolan, J., Raynes-Goldie, Kate, McBride, M.

“…This climate of fear and moral panic has certain parents seeking increasingly restrictive measures to keep their children ‘out of harm’s way’ (Barnes, 2006; Boyd & Jenkins, 2006; Chung & Grimes, 2005; Livingstone, 2009; Marwick, 2008). …”
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Between bodies and collectivities: Articulating the action of emotion in obesity epidemic discourse by Fraser, Suzanne, Maher, J., Wright, J.

“…Many critics see the epidemic designation as part of an intensifying 'moral panic' about fat in which emotions about fat shape the public and scientific debate. …”
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Framing Juvenile Delinquents As The Pathological Individual by Ali, Kamsiah

“…The moral panics create social consequences for youth because the panic can influence how we understand youth and their problem. …”
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Philanthropy, entrepreneurship and transnational exchange: women's campaigns for employment in Berlin and London, 1859-1900 by Richmond, Sarah Louise

“…This thesis focuses on the 'moral panic' provoked by single, 'redundant' middle-class women in the nineteenth century and extends current research by exploring the debate in Europe from both a comparative and transnational perspective. …”
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Governing through problems: The formulation of policy on amphetamine-type stimulants (ATS) in Australia by Fraser, Susan, Moore, David

“…We note that ideas of ‘panic’, including Cohen's notion of moral panic, have been used here to good effect, but, aiming to acknowledge the complexities of policy, we turn to poststructuralist methods of policy analysis to pursue a different approach.Following Bacchi's observation that ‘we are governed through problematisations rather than policies’ (2009, p. xi), we ask how the problem of ATS use has been formulated in policy. …”
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Slice of life in a live and wired masquerade: playful prosumption as identity work and performance in an identity college Bilibili by Chen, Zhen Troy

“…Departing from the moral panic rhetoric that Generation Z is ‘amused to death’, becoming ‘infantile and animalised’, or even enslaved by their desires and capable only of ‘cold intimacies’, the findings of this explorative study present a more complex understanding of Chinese youth’s identity work through participatory social media use and networked fandom.…”
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Active citizenship, dissent and power: the cultural politics of young adult British Muslims by Mustafa, Anisa

“…Participants’ engagement in democratic processes through political repertoires commonly adopted by other progressive social movements challenges the moral panic engendered by the exceptionalism ascribed to Muslim identity politics. …”
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The cry for professional intimacy: a UK study of changes in the working lives of expert practitioners in health and education during the early 21st century by Birkbeck, Fiona

“…At the national level, a loss of trust in our educators and doctors has been increased by the media moral panic over events such as the Shipman and Mid Stafford cases in Health, and in Education by the Climbié case and the condemnatory PISA report by McKinsey (2007). …”
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Krisis Hegemoni Dan Panik Moral: Pemaparan Kes Muzik Black Metal Dalam Akhbar Berita Harlan Dan The Star by Chew , Lu Cheah

“…This issue was raised in order to create an environment of moral panics- a phenomenon that is said to be threatening the 'local value' system- in a period of the hegemonic crisis of the dominant class since 1997. …”
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'Savoir Fare': Are cooking skills a new morality? by Coveney, J., Begley, Andrea, Gallegos, D.

“…These discourses, and the moral panics in which they are embedded, require individuals to make choices about what to cook and how to cook, and in doing so establish moral pedagogies concerning good and bad cooking. …”
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From occasion to obsession: the connection between relationships, media literacy and the changing use of computer mediated communication from 2005-2018 by Dempsey, Lauren

“…Participants were often unsure of how to respond to CMC-related moral panics, caught between the desire to protect themselves and loved ones from supposed dangers online, and the perceived need to continue to use CMC to conduct said relationships. …”
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