Perceived Dangers
As chat rooms are often frequented by minors, they can facilitate illegal sexual contact though studies have shown that this is not common, with the American Psychologist journal calling many of the fears 'myths'. Another term for this is 'technopanics.' Alice E. Marwick says 'The technopanic is an attempt to contextualize the moral panic as a response to fear of modernity as represented by new technologies.'
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