The social construction of digital danger: Debating, defusing and inflating the moral dangers of online humor and pornography in the Netherlands and the United States

New Media and Society

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 379-400

  Kuipers, Giselinde ^a,b  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Department of Culture and the Arts ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cultural logic; Entertainment; Ethnic humor; Internet; Moral panic; Morality; Pornography; The Netherlands; United States

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746371694     PISSN: 14614448     EISSN: 14617315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461444806061949     Document Type: Article

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