How Can Social Media Cause Moral Panic

Word of mouth, social media, internet, are all operated by the tone of the message. These can cause morale panic because anybody can publish or say anything about any information.

MORAL PANIC.

All these can cause moral panic- a term coined in cultural studies by Stanley Cohen (1966). It also describes how the public create an irrational fear towards an issue exaggerating its extent and actual scale. This term Moral Panic asks us to consider exactly what is being represented as “normal” and what is deviant in a certain representation of health. has been taken in to the public domain and it is very relevant to health and social care information.

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Such athletes are Rory Mclroy and Jason Day the golfers, Milos Rancic, tennis player was concern about the possible transmission of Zika virus and the potential risk it will cause their wives future pregnancies and family members (The Telegraph, 04/08/2016). The media was a big cause of moral panic by exaggerating and promoting fear by saying the mosquitos that cause the Zika virus are everywhere in Rio but no athlete who went came back infected by the Zika virus disease. The newspapers were promoting fear and lies to sell their papers. Often public reactions to the news causes a spiral effect which causes the media to run with the public concern and exaggerate it. To combat moral panic and since they came back no Zika disease has been reported by any athlete. The tabloid newspapers suck as the Sun, the Telegraph, Daily Mail and the television stations did not stop at giving false information to the public. This cause Moral Panic in the whole