#8

What are the political and social implications of the new technologies and the methods of their consumption?  E.g. moral panics etc?

Social media was the main factor of the UK riots in August 2011, as people used it to organise meet-ups and locations to riot next. Twitter and BBM was the main the social networks used because it was the fastest way to spread meet-ups and so on. The social implication of this was that it created moral panics because audience was being told that BBM and Twitter was the prime networks creating the chaos and how the police was trying to shut it down but they couldn't hack into BBM especially.