The Media and Moral Panics
These are the course requirements:
Objectives: The objective of this assignment is to demonstrate a critical understanding of one of the topic/thematic areas covered in the course and to further develop your research skills.
Basic requirements: 10-12 Page essay (approx. 2,500-3,000 words), typed, 12-point Times font, double-spaced with 1-inch margins and works cited page.
Guidelines: Write an academic research essay using a minimum of 7 academic sources.
Topic: The Media and Moral Panics – Choose an example of a moral panic (gangs, drug use, terrorism, youth subcultures, hip hop culture, comic books, etc.); and then critically assess how the mass media represents the object of panic (a person, group of persons, a condition, or episode) as a threat to dominant social values and interests; and then assess how the moral panic functions to target specific groups based upon race, gender, class, sexuality, and so on.
