Category:Week 8 (10/19-10/23)

10/19/2009


 * The Moral Panic over SNS Sites, by Wade Roush


 * Features of Moral Panic
 * There is a group that is seen in a negative way
 * There is holstility toward the group that would be social harmers
 * Consensus of people who believe that the individuals are a threat to society
 * Response to threat is disporportunate to the actual threat
 * volitility: there will be a frenzy and then it will die out
 * The internet always has moral panic attached to it
 * The Deleting Online Predators Act (2006)
 * Happened while MySpace was popular
 * Didn't pass in Senate
 * Any institution that recieved federal funding could not allow SNS sites to be open to public places like libraries, made it so youth could not have public access to adult material
 * Con: selectively cutting off access only in public places
 * Pro: Cracks down on sexual predators, or any other kind of bullying online
 * Con: Predators are actually really rare and are hardly ever strangers
 * The American Library Association was against it because they said libraries taught safe online use.
 * CIPA Act (2001) already existed, so people thought it would be redundant