近乎药物恐慌：甲卡西酮和互联网对药物新闻传播的影响。
Virtually a drug scare: mephedrone and the impact of the internet on drug news transmission.
机构信息
Scottish Centre for Crime & Justice Research, Room K301 Buchanan House, Institute for Society & Social Justice Research, Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow, Scotland G4 0BA, United Kingdom.
出版信息
Int J Drug Policy. 2012 May;23(3):198-209. doi: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2011.12.003. Epub 2012 Feb 18.
BACKGROUND
On the 16th April 2010 the drug mephedrone was outlawed in the UK. This followed news media reports of deaths linked to the drug. In many respects the mephedrone scare represented a familiar pattern of drug framing and legislative reaction. However, the mephedrone scare took place in the era of online news transmission.
METHODS
To quantify the mephedrone scare the Google Internet search-engine's Trends and News applications were monitored from when the first death was attributed to the drug until 1 year after it was banned.
RESULTS
Web interest in buying mephedrone peaked when online news stories reported deaths from the drug. Eighteen alleged mephedrone deaths were identified from online news. The fatalities which received the most Internet traffic subsequently proved false-alarms. Online interactive media widened access to alternative explanations of these alleged mephedrone deaths.
CONCLUSION
It is contended that the advent of the Internet accelerated and inflated the mephedrone scare, but also that online media allowed [web] user-generated information transmission, rather than simple dissemination by news media to audience, fostering competing discourses to stock drug scare themes as they emerged.
背景
2010 年 4 月 16 日，英国将苯甲酮列入违禁药物。此前有媒体报道称，有人因使用这种药物而死亡。在许多方面，苯甲酮恐慌代表了一种熟悉的药物构陷和立法反应模式。然而，苯甲酮恐慌发生在网络新闻传播的时代。
方法
为了量化苯甲酮恐慌，监测了谷歌互联网搜索引擎的趋势和新闻应用程序，从首例死亡归因于该药物开始，直到禁令实施一年后。
结果
当在线新闻报道该药物致死事件时，购买苯甲酮的网络兴趣达到顶峰。从在线新闻中确定了 18 例涉嫌苯甲酮死亡事件。随后证明，这些备受关注的苯甲酮死亡事件都是误报。在线互动媒体扩大了对这些涉嫌苯甲酮死亡事件的替代解释的获取途径。
结论
有人认为，互联网的出现加速并放大了苯甲酮恐慌，但在线媒体也允许用户生成信息传输，而不仅仅是新闻媒体向受众传播信息，从而促进了竞争话语的出现，以应对不断出现的药物恐慌主题。
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