Media panic, medical discourse and the smartphone
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4887764 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lian Malai Madsen (0000-0002-2384-5933, University of Copenhagen , Copenhagen , Denmark, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 2022 |
| Issue | 275 |
| Pages | 111-128 |
| Publication date | 2022-05-25 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of the Sociology of Language (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0165-2516 • E-ISSN: 1613-3668 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/ijsl-2021-0052 |
| OpenAlex | W4229448432 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 17 |
This article investigates a space of upset related to the smartphone with its communicative affordances and implications. The notion of moral panic can be seen as a way of conceptualizing spaces of upset and their discursive frames. Informed by this concept and accounts of the panic discourses particularly directed at media, I examine the upset articulated in Danish media panic discourses, which grants authority from a medical perspective. In addition, I draw on the concept of medicalization and discuss how it becomes sayable within the space of upset related to digitally mediated communication that human interaction through a technological device is not (always) communication, but habit or addiction, to unpack the socio-cultural and sociolinguistic assumptions and implications of this perspective. Empirically, the article focuses on a particularly preeminent voice in the public debate in Denmark about the impact of social media and smartphone use, namely the voice of a medical doctor who has been granted the authority as "digital health expert" and frequently appears in Danish print, broadcast and social media
Criminology · Danish · Digital media · Linguistics · Media studies · Medicalization · Moral panic · Political science · Public relations · Sociology · Computer Science · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Law · Media Studies and Communication · Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |