{"product_id":"power-of-scandal-9781442641259","title":"Power of Scandal","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy examining the parallel worlds of media and public opinion, Power of Scandal uses an alternative heuristic for understanding mass communication that is both rigorous and sophisticated.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface        PART 1: A Theoretical Approach to the Nature of Media Scandal       *    How Scandal Research tends to treat the Achievement of Media Scandals    * Scandal as Logic: Ideal and Sanction    * Scandal as industrial Product and institutional Practice    * Media scandals and what they are not    * Video-truths    * Comprehending Media Scandals from Media    * Publicity Narrative as Precondition of Scandals         PART 2: What is Publicity, the Public Sphere?       *    Publicity as methodological Construct    * Publicity as Simulacrum    * Publicity and Meaning as Subsistence    * Semiotic as Theory of formal and concrete Meaning     PART 3: Semiotic of Publicity       * Publicity as Teleology    * Legitimacy    * Public Opinion as historical-cultural role relation    * Public Opinion as Theatre    * Public Opinion operates by constructing the Role of Enunciation Instance     PART 4: Publicity in Media Theory       * Media functional or semiotic?    * Is there a Need for a separate Semiotic Media Theory?    * Signs of Society    * Functions of the Three Correlates in the Media Sign    * Technological Determination or Sign Process: the case of Televangelism    * Godcasting: Meaning Apparatuses of Religious Self-display     PART 5: From Jubilation to Scandal       * Religious Meaning outside of Public Opinion    * Television Studies and Aesthetic Form    * Media Construction of Religious Space and Time    * The 'Call Forward'    * Witnessing    * PrayTV yields to PreyTV: Acts of Televangelist Authority    * Primordial Scandal Religion     PART 6: Judgement: Bringing into a Scandal-Position       * Scandal Technique    * Investigative Journalism and Objectivity    * Metatexts: Simplifying Sanctions in Public Opinion Texts    * Metatext I: The Permission to Act    * Metatext II: The Scale of Self-Realisation    * Deduction of Classes of Scandal    * Scandal of Destination    * Scandal of Action     PART 7: The Course of the Scandal Pro-Gramme       * Media Scandal Methods    * Event: How Destination in the Shanley story created the Scandal    * The role structure of the Shanley-story    * Two discursive Scandal Constructions     * Reality: News Practice between Reality Determination and satirical alienation     PART 8: Effect and Reality of Scandal      * Scandal as Objectivity Effect    * Objective Scandal Effects    * Scandal as Effect    * Critique of Subjectivity Approaches and Functionalism    * Scandal Effect as Semiotic    * Institutions as pragmatic Predetermination of Purpose    * De-Legitimization of an Institution as Purpose of Media Scandals      Conclusion    Index     Bibliography","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53187499065687,"sku":"9781442641259","price":56.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/power-of-scandal-9781442641259","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}