Mediation and Theorists

Mediation: The process of which media context goes through to be created and presented to the audience. Every image within the media has been through a mediation process.

Three main areas of mediation:

-Selection

-Organisation

-Focusing

Cohen - Moral Panic Theory 1987

-Folk Devils created by the media reflect the worries and anxieties of society

-Young people are always a typical cause for moral panic

-Moral panics can be created through reporting of a matter in a particular way frequently and emotive language across different platforms of media