Slides from a presentation I gave at the Console-ing Passions 2014 conference.

1. “Panic in the Classroom!: Youth, internet &
the mobilization of risk via federal policies”
Console-ing Passions
University of Missouri, Columbia
April 11, 2014
Dr. Jacqueline Ryan Vickery, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Radio, Television, & Film
University of North Texas
jvickery.com
jacqueline.vickery@unt.edu
@JacVick

3. Collective
harm
Individual risk
avoidance>
PANIC!

4. Risk Harm
Monitoring,
Surveillance, &
Interventions

5. Rimm
study

6. 1996 Communications Decency Act
Panic
CDA
Time
articleRimm
study

9. - Michel Foucault

10. Children’s Online
Protection Act
(1998)

11. “Perhaps we do the minors of
this country harm if First
Amendment protections, which
they will with age inherit fully, are
chipped away in the name of
their protection.”
U.S. District Judge
Lowell A. Reed

12. 1) Awareness & education
2) Acceptable use policies
3) Curriculum
Filters & direct
government
regulations
Self
Regulation
Collective
Regulation

13. Children’s Internet Protection Act (2000)
1)Obscene
2)Pornographic
3)Harmful to minors
Public schools
& libraries
receiving E-rate
discounts

15. Deleting Online Predators
Act (2006)

17. ACCESS
WHAT
WHO

18. Policies to
protect
children online
Crimes against
children

19. - Stuart Hall

22. - Julie Frechette

23. Protecting
Children in the
21st Century
Act (2007)

25. “Panic in the Classroom!: Youth, internet &
the mobilization of risk via federal policies”
Console-ing Passions
University of Missouri, Columbia
April 11, 2014
Dr. Jacqueline Ryan Vickery, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Radio, Television, & Film
University of North Texas
jvickery.com
jacqueline.vickery@unt.edu
@JacVick