Bytyuk I. Moral panic as the impact of technology in the social communication.

The dissertation is devoted to the complex study of moral panic as a manipulative technology in social communicative systems. Particularly, scientific approaches to this phenomenon as technologies of influence, used by the media to control mass awareness are discussed. An attempt was made to determine the formation mechanism of moral panic during the period of socio-political stability of a country during a period of crisis and information warfare. In a study conducted, the scientific, practical and theoretical understanding of the basis of moral panic as an exaggerated media reaction towards relatively less significant events of social deviation was observed.