SOSC 1350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Revenge Porn, Suicide Of Rehtaeh Parsons, Suicide Of Amanda Todd
12 Feb 2018
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Keywords: moral regulation, moral panic, cycle of moral panic, morality of abstinence, sexting, non/consensual sexting, revenge porn, private use exemption, rehtaeh parsons, amanda todd. Risk = way of ordering reality (21) Morality and moral panic always about power to define normal morality = Moral discourse polices behavior to produce conformity. A project of normalizing, rendering natural, taken for granted, in a word obvious what are in fact ontological and epistemological premises of a particular and historical form of social order. (corrigan and derek sayer,1985) State is always animated and legitimated by particular moral ethos. State agencies attempt create unitary norms: state = centralizing force, singular picture of canadian morality. State not just repressive, it also constitutes subjectivities: example law. An episode, often triggered by alarming media stories and reinforced by reactive laws and public policy, of exaggerated or misdirected public concern, anxiety, fear, or anger over a perceived threat to social order.
