Moral Panic on Social Media Platforms: A Discourse Analysis of BBC News Posts on U.S.-Iran-Israel Conflict
This study examines how war-related events are represented in Facebook posts published by BBC News within the contemporary digital news environment. Drawing on moral panic theory (Cohen, 1972; Goode & Ben-Yehuda, 1994) and framing theory (Entman, 1993), the study analyzes a dataset of 23 Facebook posts in order to i...