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Book SynopsisHoward Tumber is Professor in the Department of Journalism at City, University of London, UK. He is a founder and co-editor of Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism. He has published widely in the field of the sociology of media and journalism.
Silvio Waisbord is Professor in the School of Media and Public Affairs at George Washington University, USA. He was the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Communication, and he has published widely about news, politics and social change.
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Howard Tumber and Silvio Waisbord
1 Media and Scandal
Howard Tumber and Silvio Waisbord
Part I
KEY CONCEPTS IN Media and SCANDAL STUDIEs
2 Scandal and Social Theory
Scott Brenton
3 Media Coverage of Political Scandals: Effects of Personalization and Potential for Democratic Reforms
Marion R. Just and Ann N. Crigler
4 Moral Panics
Rodney Tiffen
5 Scandals and Agenda Setting
Sharon Meraz
6 Mediatization and Political Scandal
Bingchun Meng
7 Scandal and News Values
Brian McNair
8 Selecting scandal: How Legacy and Social Media Gatekeep the News
Elizabeth Stoycheff
9 Scandals and Social Accountability
Enrique Peruzzotti
10 Media Framing of Political Scandals: Theoretical Framework and Empirical Evidence
Jurgen Maier, Carolin Jansen and Christian von Sikorski
11 Fake News and Scandal
Jason Cabañes, C. W. Anderson and Jonathan Corpus Ong
PART II
POLITICAL CONTEXT and MEDIA DYNAMICS of SCANDALS
12 New Nordic Noir: Political Scandals as Drama and Media Hunts
Sigurd Allern and Ester Pollack
13 Political Scandal and Kompromat: Manufactured Outrage from Russia
Sarah Oates
14 Right-wing Populism, Media and Political Scandal
Juha Herkman and Janne Matikainen
15 Corruption Scandals and the Media System
Paolo Mancini
16 Social Media and Scandal
Gina Masullo Chen
17 The Shifting Boundaries of Elite and Tabloid Media in Political Sex Scandals
Esa Väliverronen and Laura Juntunen
18 Talk Scandals: The Power of Mediated Talk
Mats Ekström and Bengt Johansson
19 Legal Contexts in Reporting Scandal in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Russia
Lyombe Eko
20 Unreported Scandals: The Power of Personality and Legal Bluster
Judith Townend
Part III
Scandals and Journalistic practices
21 Scandals and Freedom of Information
David Cuillier
22 Transnational Investigative Journalism and Scandal
Michael Bromley
23 Media Stings and the Normalization of Scandal in India
Kalyani Chadha
24 To Bark or to Bite? Journalism and Entrapment
Zohar Kampf
25 From Snowden to Cambridge Analytica: An Overview of Whistleblowing Cases as Scandals
Philip Di Salvo
26 Data Journalism and the Promise of Transparency
Sylvain Parasie
27 Caught Between Transparency and Scandals-making: Conceptualising WikiLeaks
Benedetta Brevini and Jorge Valdovinos
28 Scandal Mining and Socially Mediated Visibility
Daniel Trottier
Part IV
THEMES AND SETTINGS OF MEDIA SCANDALS
29 Surveillance Scandals and the Systemic Crisis of the Public
Risto Kunelius and Adrienne Russell
30 Scandal and Celebrity
Linda Steiner
31 Reframing the Gender Gap in American Political Sex Scandals in the #MeToo Era
Hinda Mandell
32 Scandals and Sport
David Rowe
33 The Scandalous Power of the Press: Phone Hacking in the UK
Natalie Fenton
34 #AidToo? The 2018 Humanitarian Scandals in Oxfam GB and Save the Children
Glenda Cooper
35 Scandals and the Armed Forces
Mark Blach-Ørsten and Anker Brink Lund
36 Sex Trafficking and Scandal
Gretchen Soderlund
37 Race Scandals as Racial Projects
Maryann Erigha
38 Scandals in Science
Heather Akin
39 Scandals, Media, and Religion
Paul Soukup
40 Corporate Scandalization Process: Unpacking the Corporate Scandal
W. Timothy Coombs and Sherry J. Holladay
41 Corporate Scandals as Denial of Reputation
Daniel Vogler and Mark Eisenegger
Part V
Consequences and Legacies of Media Scandals
42 Shame and Scandal: Making the Personal Political
Julian Petley
43 Scandal, Media Effects and Political Candidates
Clarisse Warren and Dona-Gene Barton
44 Scandals, Media Effects, and Public Opinion
Francis L. F. Lee
45 The Political Consequences of Corruption Scandals: Main Findings and Challenges
Macarena Ares, Sofia Breitenstein and Enrique Hernández
46 Media Priming Effects and Ethical Ambivalence in Corruption
Rosa Berganza and Roberto de Miguel Pascual
47 Protecting Public Perception: Responding to Scandal using Benoit’s Image Repair Theory
Kenon A. Brown, Qingru Xu and Melanie Formentin
48 The Routinization of Media Scandals
Maria Grafström and Karolina Windell
49 Scandal and the Law
Gavin Phillipson
50 Why Scandals (Might) Be Good For Democracy
Brandon Rottinghaus
