Posts tagged: moral panic
Verisimilitude - likeness/ semblance to reality/ truth
e.g. ‘Call of Duty’ includes a strong verisimilitude in its faithful reproduction of actual firearms.
#bcotempathy Why do you think the UK mainstream media has shown selective empathy in this story?
I’m up for us “All Being Bostonians Today”. But then can we all be Yemenis tomorrow & Pakistanis the day after? That’s how empathy works.
— Gary Younge (@garyyounge)
Empathy is the ability to recognise emotions that are being experienced by another living or fictional being.
From Rainbow Parties to Butt-Chugging: A Timeline of Moral Panics in the Last Decade
Thank God that Pokemon was there to guide us through it all…
A moral panic is the intensity of feeling expressed in a culture or population about an issue that appears to threaten the social order e.g. Rock Music causing Violence and a decay or Ethics.
In psychology, desensitization (also called inurement) is defined as the diminished emotional responsiveness to a negative or aversive stimulus after repeated exposure to it.
If we see something enough times, we can become conditioned, and perhaps even numb to it.
A One Direction fanzine has been criticised after it featured a “voodoo doll” of TV presenter Caroline Flack who dated one of the band’s members, Harry Styles
The US magazine featured a picture of Flack with pins sticking out of her, highlighting her so-called “crows’ feet” and “dirty blonde dye job”.
It criticised the 32-year-old for dating Styles, who is 18, saying “date boys your age, not your shoe size” and added: “Note: zero engagement rings. Because no one wants to be with her.”
Irish TV and radio presenter Conor Behan said on Twitter: “This article for One Direction fans slating Caroline Flack is hideously sexist and has gone viral for obvious reasons.”
#Games #Addiction #Documentary #PlayedTime by @DINSERELLIinc, Jam, and Tom G
#bcotmedia student Marq De Villers’ #Anonymous #MoralPanic #Debate
