Media panic, medical discourse and the smartphone

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International Journal of the Sociology of Language Pub Date : 2022-05-01 DOI:10.1515/ijsl-2021-0052

Lian Malai Madsen

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Abstract

Abstract This article investigates a space of upset related to the smartphone with its communicative affordances and implications. The notion of moral panic can be seen as a way of conceptualizing spaces of upset and their discursive frames. Informed by this concept and accounts of the panic discourses particularly directed at media, I examine the upset articulated in Danish media panic discourses, which grants authority from a medical perspective. In addition, I draw on the concept of medicalization and discuss how it becomes sayable within the space of upset related to digitally mediated communication that human interaction through a technological device is not (always) communication, but habit or addiction, to unpack the socio-cultural and sociolinguistic assumptions and implications of this perspective. Empirically, the article focuses on a particularly preeminent voice in the public debate in Denmark about the impact of social media and smartphone use, namely the voice of a medical doctor who has been granted the authority as “digital health expert” and frequently appears in Danish print, broadcast and social media.

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媒体恐慌、医学话语和智能手机

摘要本文研究了一个与智能手机相关的沮丧空间及其交流启示和含义。道德恐慌的概念可以被视为一种概念化沮丧空间及其话语框架的方式。根据这一概念和对特别针对媒体的恐慌话语的描述，我研究了丹麦媒体恐慌话语中表达的不安，这从医学的角度赋予了权威。此外，我借鉴了医学化的概念，并讨论了在与数字媒介通信相关的不安空间中，通过技术设备进行的人类互动不是（总是）通信，而是习惯或成瘾，这是如何变得可以说的，以解开这一观点的社会文化和社会语言学假设和含义。从经验上讲，这篇文章关注的是丹麦公众辩论中关于社交媒体和智能手机使用影响的一个特别突出的声音，即一位医生的声音，他被授予“数字健康专家”的权威，经常出现在丹麦的印刷品、广播和社交媒体上。

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International Journal of the Sociology of Language Arts and Humanities-Language and Linguistics

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期刊介绍： The International Journal of the Sociology of Language (IJSL) is dedicated to the development of the sociology of language as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches – theoretical and empirical – supplement and complement each other, contributing thereby to the growth of language-related knowledge, applications, values and sensitivities. Five of the journal''s annual issues are topically focused, all of the articles in such issues being commissioned in advance, after acceptance of proposals. One annual issue is reserved for single articles on the sociology of language. Selected issues throughout the year also feature a contribution on small languages and small language communities.