juvenoia

juvenoia
n.
The baseless and exaggerated fear that the Internet and current social trends are having negative effects on children. [Juvenile + paranoia.]
Example Citations:
Is the internet really an amplifier for youth deviance, bad behavior, and risk? Or is it just the opposite? Are we simply applying age-old paranoia about youth (juvenoia) to the newest technology and coming to all the wrong conclusions?
—Sylvia Martinez, " The Internet, Youth Deviance and the Problem of Juvenoia: http://blog.genyes.org/index.php/2010/12/03/the-internet-youth-deviance-and-the-problem-of-juvenoia/," Generation YES Blog, December 3, 2010
And yet the overall rates of child sex crimes and of teen sex are down since the 1990s, as are juvenile crime, school violence and teen fighting. David Finkelhor, director of the Crimes Against Children Research Center at the University of New Hampshire, calls this distance between anxiety and reality 'juvenoia' and chalks it up to an 'exaggerated fear about the influence of social change on children.'
—Emily Bazelon, " The Ninny State: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/26/magazine/the-wrong-response-to-online-predators.html?pagewanted=all," The New York Times, June 26, 2011
Earliest Citation:
Juvenoia: Exaggerated anxiety about the influence of social change on children and youth.
—Dr. David Finkelhor, " The Internet, Youth Deviance and the Problem of Juvenoia: http://vimeo.com/16900027" (video), Crimes Against Children Research Center, October 22, 2010
Notes:
Here's the speech where David Finkelhor coins juvenoia (about 27:40 in):
The Internet, Youth Deviance and the Problem of Juvenoia: http://vimeo.com/16900027 from Crimes against Children Research: http://vimeo.com/user5243267 on Vimeo: http://vimeo.com.
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This seems incorrect. The examples indicate a general paranoia about youth, not a specific paranoia about Internet use.The first example references the Internet directly, and if you watch the video associated with the earliest cite, you'll see that the Internet is a big part of this concept. In any case, the definition also includes "current social trends."

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