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https://miriamposner.com/dh150w15/week-2-moral-panic-in-men-women-and-children/ Coming of Age Online Wed, 19 Oct 2016 13:07:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.26 https://miriamposner.com/dh150w15/week-2-moral-panic-in-men-women-and-children/#comment-47 Thu, 15 Jan 2015 20:08:01 +0000 http://miriamposner.com/dh150w15/?p=289#comment-47 I think this is a poignant example of how today’s technological revolution instates a heightened level of “moral panic”. From reading Baym, I thought a lot about how panic, in general, just heightens the senses, perspective, everything. Anxiety is raised, and the established status quo becomes unstable – as with the example of advancing technology. I really think moral panic does this to an even higher extent, since it puts into question what we base our entire culture culture off of – morals…I haven’t seen Men Women and Children but just from what you summarized it’s obvious that gender is critically affected/involved in this example of moral panic. For example, when morals are up in the air, the construction of gender is even more enforced – Jennifer Garner monitors her daughter’s online presence in a very particular way to maintain her role as a “good girl”.

]]> https://miriamposner.com/dh150w15/week-2-moral-panic-in-men-women-and-children/#comment-46 Thu, 15 Jan 2015 19:58:13 +0000 http://miriamposner.com/dh150w15/?p=289#comment-46 Great post, Shanya. The moral panic in this film is really evident and it’s a great connection to the class. However, I think D.O. raises an interesting perspective to MWC that we didn’t seem to discuss in class. It’s really easy for us as millennials to assume that her daughter is the victim to a paranoid mother, but Garner may be a victim to a generational gap in understanding with her daughter as well. Though seen as the antagonist in the trailer, maybe to someone with a determinist stance views her as the protagonist.

]]> https://miriamposner.com/dh150w15/week-2-moral-panic-in-men-women-and-children/#comment-30 Thu, 15 Jan 2015 14:27:45 +0000 http://miriamposner.com/dh150w15/?p=289#comment-30 I didn’t enjoy MWC as much as you guys seemed to, but I did find Jennifer Garner’s overly paranoid character to be interesting. Not just because she’s the most visible marker of moral panic, but because she’s the emotional lynchpin of the entire film–after all, the movie’s central argument is that digital technology is changing human relationships for the worse. Garner might be the most obvious victim of moral panic, but the entire film itself is as much a victim as she is.

]]> https://miriamposner.com/dh150w15/week-2-moral-panic-in-men-women-and-children/#comment-27 Thu, 15 Jan 2015 06:57:11 +0000 http://miriamposner.com/dh150w15/?p=289#comment-27 I think the conversation being had here more so has to do with issues of motherly anxiety that have persisted throughout the existence of humans and familiar modes of grouping and structure. Mom’s being anxious about their kids social well-being has always existed, despite the ways in which this “socializing” has changed forms.

]]> https://miriamposner.com/dh150w15/week-2-moral-panic-in-men-women-and-children/#comment-15 Wed, 14 Jan 2015 22:00:28 +0000 http://miriamposner.com/dh150w15/?p=289#comment-15 I’m curious about older films that approach this theme of technological divides between generations and within families. I’m almost sure that there had to be movies about older communication technology and its constructed tensions.

]]> https://miriamposner.com/dh150w15/week-2-moral-panic-in-men-women-and-children/#comment-7 Tue, 13 Jan 2015 23:59:51 +0000 http://miriamposner.com/dh150w15/?p=289#comment-7 This idea of “moral panic” in terms of the internet is very interesting to me. When we watched the trailer in class I was curious about the mother deleting messages from her daughters phone. I assumed these messages weren’t obscene, so I didn’t know why the message from a boy on the internet would be so bad. The boy and girl could talk at school, so it’s strange that just because the message is online it is not okay.

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