Editing Moral panic (section)

===Media technologies===
{{Main|Media panic}}

The advent of any new [[medium of communication]] produces anxieties among those who deem themselves as protectors of childhood and culture. Their fears are often based on a lack of knowledge as to the actual capacities or usage of the medium. [[Moralizing left|Moralizing]] organizations, such as those motivated by religion, commonly advocate [[censorship]], while parents remain concerned.<ref name="Critcher-2017" /><ref>{{cite book|last=Livingstone|first=Sonia|year=2002|title=Young people and new media|location=London and Thousand Oaks, CA|publisher=Sage|isbn=0-7619-6466-5}}{{page needed|date=August 2022}}</ref><ref>Barker, M., and J. Petley, eds. 1997 ''Ill effects: The media/violence debate''. Abingdon, UK: Routledge.{{page needed|date=August 2022}}</ref>

According to [[media studies]] professor Kirsten Drotner:<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Drotner |first1=Kirsten |title=Dangerous Media? Panic Discourses and Dilemmas of Modernity |journal=Paedagogica Historica |date=January 1999 |volume=35 |issue=3 |pages=593–619 |doi=10.1080/0030923990350303 |pmid=22043530 }}</ref>

<blockquote>[E]very time a new [[Mass media|mass medium]] has entered the social scene, it has spurred public debates on social and cultural norms, debates that serve to reflect, negotiate and possibly revise these very norms.… In some cases, debate of a new medium brings about – indeed changes into – heated, emotional reactions … what may be defined as a [[media panic]].</blockquote>Recent manifestations of this kind of development include [[cyberbullying]] and [[sexting]].<ref name="Critcher-2017" />