Main characteristics of New Media
New Media are digital, interactive, hypertextual, networked, virtual and simulated.
Media, Sociology key terms
Media
Moral Panic
The ‘epidemic’ of teens addicted to gambling – a moral panic with little substance?
The Gambling Commission recently released its latest 2018 ‘Young People and Gambling Report’, triggering some dramatic headlines: Headlines from The Independent
Media
The New Dr Who: An Annoyingly Politically Correct Regeneration
I’ve found the eleventh series of Dr Who a bit of a struggle to watch at times. It’s nothing to
Moral Panic
The Croydon Cat Killer: The Perfect Moral Panic for our Age?
Police may have just found the culprit behind a horrific moggy murder spree which started in Croydon in October 2015.
Media
Video Games Disorder: Just Another Moral Panic about Gaming?
The World Health Organisation recently included ‘gaming disorder‘ as a new mental health disorder in its latest updated draft version
Bake Off 2018 certainly packs a strong middle class punch…
While there’s a lovely ethnic and gender diversity shine on this year’s Great British Bake Off pie, the social class
Media
The social causes of the California wild fires
The California Wild Fires are typically reported as being caused by a ‘perfect storm’ of environmental factors. Mainstream news reports
A few sociological observations on England’s progress through the World Cup…
Sociological analysis of the World Cup as a media-construction and a bizarrely inclusive kind of nationalism…
Media
Does Peppa Pig Encourage Unnecessary G.P Visits?
To what extent is Peppa Pig responsible for increasing strain on the NHS?
Media, Social media
Contemporary sociology: false news spreads faster than true news
A recent MIT study led by Sinan Aral, published in the journal Science in early March (2018) found that ‘false