Moral Panics in Suburban Texas

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dc.contributor.authorDurington, Matthew Slover
dc.contributor.departmentTowson University, Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminal Justiceen_US
dc.date.accessioned2019-05-08T14:18:47Z
dc.date.available2019-05-08T14:18:47Z
dc.date.issued2007-03-06
dc.descriptionA working paper for the MediaAnthro e-seminar series February 27 – March 6, 2007en_US
dc.description.abstractThis 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.en_US
dc.description.urihttp://www.media-anthropology.net/durington_panics.pdfen_US
dc.format.extent29 pagesen_US
dc.genreworking papersen_US
dc.identifierdoi:10.13016/m2wems-enq1
dc.identifier.citationDurington, Matthew. (2007) "Moral Panics in Suburban Texas". EASA MediaAnthro E-Seminar Series.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11603/13798
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherEASA Media Anthropology Networken_US
dc.relation.isAvailableAtTowson University
dc.subjectTeenagers -- Drug abuseen_US
dc.subjectEthnology -- Press coverageen_US
dc.subjectMedia ethnographyen_US
dc.subjectPlano (Tex.)en_US
dc.subjectSuburban lifeen_US
dc.subjectMoral panicsen_US
dc.titleMoral Panics in Suburban Texasen_US
dc.typeTexten_US

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