@inbook{110aab723f2043009c0f347afccccfc4,
title = "The Scapegoat mechanism and the media: Beyond the folk devil paradigm",
abstract = "This chapter re-evaluates Stanley Cohen's classic sociological study of scapegoating mechanisms in light of Renee Girard's anthropology of mimesis and rivalry. Like Cohen's work, it looks at the nature of media, and mediation, and seeks to use Girard, and a variety of recent postmodern theories of media, to make new sense of this old problem.",
keywords = "Girard, Stanley Cohen, Scapegoat, Mimesis, Folk devils, cybernetics, Laborit, Wiener",
author = "John O'Carroll",
note = "Includes bibliographical references.",
year = "2015",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781628924640",
volume = "3",
series = "Violence, Desire, and the Sacred",
publisher = "Bloomsbury Academic",
pages = "17--32",
editor = "Scott Cowdell and Chris Fleming and Joel Hodge",
booktitle = "Mimesis, movies, and media",
address = "United Kingdom",
}