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Your 1500 word written report is based on the findings from a piece of research you will complete on news media representation of a moral panic using the quantitative content analysis research method. Students should refer to Bryman, A. (2004, 2012, 2015) Social Research Methods. Oxford University Press. Chapter 13: Content Analysis. Additional guidance will be given in lectures and seminars.

The aims of the assignment are to:

Further develop understanding of the way the news media creates moral panics and the impact of this in shaping popular opinion and/or policy.

Apply quantitative content analysis to make sense of media texts.

Develop group work/teamwork skills.

Your 1500 word written report should be structured as follows:

1. Title and Outline of topic/research question

Briefly explain what a moral panic is. Explain the nature of the moral panic you have chosen to analyse. Explain what you have chosen to analyse in relation to the moral panic i.e. what is the focus of your content analysis - What is your main question?

2. How you went about your Content Analysis

Explain briefly what content analysis is. Explain how you used content analysis in your research – What media texts did you use? How did you sample them? (which bits/ how much?) Which indicators did you develop and why? i.e. how do they link to your research question? Use your content analysis grid here to explain how you carried out the data collection and how you analysed them e.g. which codes did you use, how did you produce the data. Did you encounter any problems?

3. Your findings

What were the findings from your indicators? i.e. describe your findings. Did the findings answer your question? If not, why not? e.g. Were the codes useful i.e. did you manage to find out what you wanted to find out in order to answer your question?

4. Interpretation of results

Analyse the data you have produced in relation to your question and existing literature on the topic. Are there similar studies that confirm or challenge your findings? What are the implications of the findings e.g. for policy/practice. Has the moral panic, for example, led to changes in policy, legislation or law and order? What are/might be the consequences of stereotyping or deviancy amplification? E.g. My research found…

Similar research studies note that the consequences of such sexist stereotyping has resulted in…

For this section it is essential that you have conducted wider reading around your chosen moral panic.

5. Conclusion

Briefly reflect on your research. What are the strengths and weaknesses of your research, especially the use of quantitative content analyses as a method? Did you manage to design a project which used content analysis to produce meaningful data which answered your question? For this section you need to have done some reading on content analysis.

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Olivia · Accepted Answer

Creation of moral panic by the news media and the impact on shaping popular opinion and/or policy.
Outline of the topic/research question:
Moral panic is a sociological concept in which widespread panic or fear starts to build up within the citizens. This is caused primarily by the introduction of new policies and regulations by the government. Often fuelled by the political leaders as well as the media, the incidence of moral panic is the mainly targeted to the minority sections of the society. These people comprise of the lower classes that are plagues by poverty, racial and ethnical discrimination and similar other prejudices (Goode, 2017).  Moral panic makes them fear for their security, values, safety and their interest in the society. The use of moral panic is not new or unknown. It is often used as a means to control a section of a society by political leaders. Moral panic is a way by which governments around the world have been known to foster societal control on the common people, taking advantage of their own insecurities for the purpose of making profits or gaining control over them (Hier, 2016). 
The structure of moral panic was first laid out by South African criminal sociologist, Stanley Cohen in the 1960s. Moral panic starts when the particular individual or an opinion is laid out by the media portraying it as a threat to the society. This can be anything, from the uprising of a string of murders to the increasing in children in school. Such issues are portrayed in such a way that can be relatable to the greater mass of people (Monod, 2017). With such simplistic yet misleading context of the actual problem, a greater public uproar arises in the society which would be mandated by some sort of reaction from the government. This could be in terms of newer policies and increasing the strictness of the existing system that can be perceived as a threat, be it true or false to the common people. In the last stage of moral panic, a widespread change occurs in the society fuelled by misguided opinion of a much smaller section of the society into a riot (Horsley, 2017).
The area of study chosen for this report is media fuels the spread of moral panic among the common people. The use of narcotics and drugs has been a common factor in creating a moral panic. A large section of the society specially the poor and uneducated have been discriminated against on the basis of such false allegations fuelled by media reports. Often thought as the perpetrator of the creation of moral panic, it is the media that is considered to be the root of such news that are mostly false. Reinforcing such stereotypes among the people that are already marginalised by the society in terms of their race, sexual orientation and nationality and religion has been one common weapon that is constantly being utilised by the media. Research suggests that in spite of not using drugs or meth, a lot of people from such sections of the society are facing charges and accusation based on public assumption alone. Let aside the discrimination and isolation of such communities, they are losing jobs,

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