The Ethnographic Semiotics of a Suburban Moral Panic

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dc.contributor.authorDurington, Matthew Slover
dc.contributor.departmentTowson University, Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminal Justiceen_US
dc.date.accessioned2019-05-01T15:55:06Z
dc.date.available2019-05-01T15:55:06Z
dc.date.issued2007
dc.description.abstractThis article describes Worth’s notion of ethnographic semiotics as part of an overall strategy employing the anthropology of visual communication in ethnographic research focused on media portrayals of a suburban community during a moral panic over a concentrated number of teenage heroin overdose deaths. While the full-length ethnography details multiple media events surrounding the moral panic, the central place of one piece of print media is described in detail. This article served as a catalyst for the moral panic that occurred within the suburb, facilitated community response, and became a template for further national media coverage in the United States. In addition, the article became an instrumental research tool for elicitation among informants during ethnographic research. The overall study and employment of Worth’s ethnographic semiotics serve as a bridge between foundational studies in the anthropology of visual communication and contemporary methodologies employed in media ethnography.en_US
dc.description.urihttps://doi.org/10.1080/02560040701810040en_US
dc.format.extent15 pagesen_US
dc.genrejournal articlesen_US
dc.identifierdoi:10.13016/m2o8j7-5gat
dc.identifier.citationDurington, M. (2007). The ethnographic semiotics of a suburban moral panic. Critical Arts: A South-North Journal of Cultural & Media Studies, 21(2), 261-275. https://doi.org/10.1080/02560040701810040en_US
dc.identifier.issn0256-0046
dc.identifier.uri10.1080/02560040701810040
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11603/13540
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherTaylor & Francisen_US
dc.relation.isAvailableAtTowson University
dc.relation.ispartofseriesCritical Arts: A South-North Journal of Cultural & Media Studies;volume 21, number 2
dc.subjectEthnographic semioticsen_US
dc.subjectSuburban life -- United States -- Study and teachingen_US
dc.subjectMoral panicsen_US
dc.subjectVisual anthropologyen_US
dc.subjectEthnology -- Press coverageen_US
dc.subjectWorth, Solen_US
dc.titleThe Ethnographic Semiotics of a Suburban Moral Panicen_US
dc.typeTexten_US

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