From the Dance Hall to Facebook: Teen Girls, Mass Media, and Moral Panic in the United States, 1905-2010

By Shayla Thiel-Stern

From the days of the penny press to the contemporary world of social media, journalistic accounts of teen girls in trouble have been a mainstay of the U.S. news media. Often the stories represent these girls as either victims or whores (and sometimes both), using journalistic storytelling devices and news-gathering practices that question girls' ability to perform femininity properly, especially as they act in public recreational space. These media accounts of supposed misbehavior can lead to moral panic

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1625340915
• ISBN13: 9781625340917
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.7" x 9.4"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher