...been in existence long enough, but suddenly appears in the limelight. Sometimes the panic is passed over and is forgotten except in folklore and collective memory; at other times it has more serious and long Moral Panics 7 lasting repercussions and might produce such changes as those in legal and social...

...been in existence long enough, but suddenly appears in the limelight. Sometimes the panic is passed over and is forgotten, except in folklore and collective...social policy or even in the way society conceives itself. (Quoted in Hall etal., 16-17) To be sure, the Net has been embraced widely enough (at least...

...moral barricades are manned by editors, bishops, politicians and other rightthinking people; . . . Sometimes the panic passes over and is forgotten,...those in legal and social policy or even in the way the society perceives itself.6 Subsequent writers, of whom Stuart Hall is perhaps the most notable,...

...often) are resorted to. ... Sometimes the panic passes over and is forgotten, except in folklore or collective memory; at other times it has more serious...produce such changes as those in legal and social policy.8 Such "changes as those in legal and social policy" are necessarily intertwined with the negotiation...

...pronounce their diagnoses and solutions; ways of coping are evolved or (more often) resorted to.... Sometimes the panic passes over and is forgotten,...those in legal and social policy or even in the way the society conceives itself." See Stanley Cohen, Folk Devils and Moral Panics: The Creation of the...

...moral barricades are manned by editors, bishops, politicians and other right-thinking people; . . . Sometimes the panic passes over and is forgotten,...those in legal and social policy or even in the way that society perceives itself."1 For Cohen the mass media provides "a main source of information about...

...moral barricades are manned by editors, bishops, politicians and other rightthinking people; . . . Sometimes the panic passes over and is forgotten,...folk-lore and collective memory; at other times it cultural relations between Norway and Sweden are rather like those between Scotland and England, but...

...pronounce their diagnoses and solutions; ways of coping are evolved or (more often) resorted to ... Sometimes the panic passes over and is forgotten,...repercussions and might produce such changes as those in legal or social policy or even in the way society conceives itself." Although Cohen's definition refers to...

...visible. Sometimes the object of the panic is quite novel and at other times . . . suddenly appears in 143 the limelight. Sometimes the panic passes over and...those in legal and social policy or even in the way the society conceives itself. (Cohen, 1972;9) Cohen's description is particularly useful for examining...

...experts pronounce their diagnosis and solutions; ways of coping are evolved or (more often) resorted to Sometimes the panic passes over and is forgotten,...those in legal and social policy or even in the way the society conceives itself.7 Since the appearance of Cohen's seminal book in 1972, the term "moral...