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„McRobbie and Thornton famously argued that such new forms of media and politics required reform of the old moral panic model,33 but nothing has emerged to replace it. It can be argued that alterations in the news mediascape have had limited impact upon the course of moral panics. Such may be the lesson of two very different recent examples: the prohibition of new designer drug mephedrone34 and the social reaction to the inner city riots.35 Social media were in both cases used by deviant actors to share their world-views, but, once in public view, condemnation and retribution were unequivocal. The centralised systems of media, social control agencies and government still retain an extraordinary cultural power, despite lacking influence in cyberspace. New media clearly need to be incorporated into moral panic media analysis but should not dominate it. Three other projects may be equally productive. One is the need for continued empirical work using analytical techniques developed since PTC. Recent work on the asylum seekers panic is exemplary.36 Two, the genres through which moral panics operate might profitably be analysed in terms of narrative structure.37 Three, connections might be made with work on risk, notably the role of the media in its social amplification.38 Then, just as PTC once did, moral panic analysis can benefit from and contribute to the field of media studies as a whole.“ (Hall et al., 2013, p. 395);„McRobbie and Thornton famously argued that such new forms of media and politics required reform of the old moral panic model,33 but nothing has emerged to replace it. It can be argued that alterations in the news mediascape have had limited impact upon the course of moral panics. Such may be the lesson of two very different recent examples: the prohibition of new designer drug mephedrone34 and the social reaction to the inner city riots.35 Social media were in both cases used by deviant actors to share their world-views, but, once in public view, condemnation and retribution were unequivocal. The centralised systems of media, social control agencies and government still retain an extraordinary cultural power, despite lacking influence in cyberspace. New media clearly need to be incorporated into moral panic media analysis but should not dominate it. Three other projects may be equally productive. One is the need for continued empirical work using analytical techniques developed since PTC. Recent work on the asylum seekers panic is exemplary.36 Two, the genres through which moral panics operate might profitably be analysed in terms of narrative structure.37 Three, connections might be made with work on risk, notably the role of the media in its social amplification.38 Then, just as PTC once did, moral panic analysis can benefit from and contribute to the field of media studies as a whole.“ (Hall et al., 2013, p. 395)