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    Moral Panics in Suburban Texas

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    Author/Creator
    Durington, Matthew Slover
    Date
    2007-03-06
    Type of Work
    29 pages
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    working papers
    Department
    Towson University, Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminal Justice
    Citation of Original Publication
    Durington, Matthew. (2007) "Moral Panics in Suburban Texas". EASA MediaAnthro E-Seminar Series.
    Subjects
    Teenagers -- Drug abuse
    Ethnology -- Press coverage
    Media ethnography
    Plano (Tex.)
    Suburban life
    Moral panics
    Abstract
    This paper details portions of an ethnographic study of a moral panic that surrounded the heroin overdose deaths of several teenagers in the American suburb of Plano, Texas. Media ethnography engages numerous individuals who represent different institutions who participated in various discussions and the creation of strategies that emerged throughout the tenure of the moral panic in the suburb. These forces acting in an interdependent fashion assisted in the creation of a new social subject, the suburban teenage heroin addict. Both the residents of Plano, Texas and the media that helped establish the moral panic relied on a representational history of the American suburb that conflates and entangles notions of race, class and space and demarcates this social space as white. I discuss the practice of media ethnography through a comprehensive content analysis of several forms of media, and the ethnographic reception and conveyance of that media among individuals within the context of fieldwork.


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    Towson University
    8000 York Road
    Towson, Maryland 21252

    Website:
    www.towson.edu

    Contact Info:
    azukowski@towson.edu
    410-704-5318
    http://libraries.towson.edu/md-soar


    If you wish to submit a copyright complaint or withdrawal request, please email mdsoar-help@umd.edu.