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From the Dance Hall to Facebook: Analyzing Constructions of Gendered Moral Panic in Girls and Young Women in Public Spaces |
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The dominant cultural discourses surrounding MySpace and Facebook are reminiscent of the discourses surrounding the rise of dance halls in the late 19th and early 20th century, and specifically, girls’ and young women’s use of them. Much like MySpace and Facebook, there is some detectable panic about young women in public space. These discourses constitute what many scholars would refer to as a moral panic, or an overreaction to a perceived threat to society. This paper examines discourses found recent newspaper articles about girls using social networking sites and compares and contrasts it to discourses found in early 20th century newspapers and in speeches from the era. Ultimately, a gendered moral panic emerges through the analysis of these discourses despite them being from different points in history. |
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Name: Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication
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| Thiel-Stern, Shayla. "From the Dance Hall to Facebook: Analyzing Constructions of Gendered Moral Panic in Girls and Young Women in Public Spaces" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Marriott Downtown, Chicago, IL, Aug 06, 2008 <Not Available>. 2008-12-10 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p272383_index.html> |
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| Thiel-Stern, S. T. , 2008-08-06 "From the Dance Hall to Facebook: Analyzing Constructions of Gendered Moral Panic in Girls and Young Women in Public Spaces" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Marriott Downtown, Chicago, IL Online <PDF>. 2008-12-10 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p272383_index.html |
Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: The dominant cultural discourses surrounding MySpace and Facebook are reminiscent of the discourses surrounding the rise of dance halls in the late 19th and early 20th century, and specifically, girls’ and young women’s use of them. Much like MySpace and Facebook, there is some detectable panic about young women in public space. These discourses constitute what many scholars would refer to as a moral panic, or an overreaction to a perceived threat to society. This paper examines discourses found recent newspaper articles about girls using social networking sites and compares and contrasts it to discourses found in early 20th century newspapers and in speeches from the era. Ultimately, a gendered moral panic emerges through the analysis of these discourses despite them being from different points in history. |
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| From the Dance Hall to Facebook: Analyzing Constructions of Gendered Moral Panic in Girls and Young Women in Public Spaces By Shayla Thiel-Stern Ph.D. University of Minnesota School of Journalism and Mass Communication To be presented in the Critical Cultural Studies Division of the Annual Conference for the Association of Educators in Journalism and Mass Communication in August 2008; Chicago IL 1 From the Dance Hall to Facebook: Analyzing Constructions of Gendered Moral Panic in Girls and Young Women |
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