Prof. Barbie Zelizer writes about Spider-Man, Broadway musicals, safety, and media frenzies
Thursday, January 06, 2011
Barbie Zelizer, Ph.D.
Annenberg
Barbie Zelizer, Ph.D., the Raymond Williams Professor of Communication, wrote a column that appears in
The Huffington Post about media in crisis situations; specifically, the media attention being paid to the Broadway play “Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark.”
“Though much of this attention has been driven by a concern for the production's safety, its intensity and prominence call to mind a moral panic, motivated less by the production's well-being than by upholding the arts in their present form,” Prof. Zelizer writes.
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