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Scandology 3

Scandals in New Media

  • Presents current empirical and theoretical findings on scandalization processes in new media environments
  • Continues the successful book series “Scandalogy” including international expert knowledge
  • Offers scientific analyses on scandal communication in new media environments

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
  2. Introduction

    • André Haller, Hendrik Michael, Lucas Seeber
    Pages 1-7
  3. Scandals and Digital Publics: Transformations of Power and Visibility

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9
    2. Social Amplification of Scandals: One Social Media Effect

      • W. Timothy Coombs, Sherry J. Holladay
      Pages 11-23
  4. Forms, Functions, and Practices of Scandal Reporting in Changing Media Environments

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 59-59
  5. Scandals, New Media and the Historical Perspective

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 99-99
    2. Early Modern Sermon and Scandalization?

      • Joachim Werz
      Pages 101-113
  6. New Media, Scandals in Culture, and Public Protest

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 151-151
    2. Scandalogy Meets Field Theory

      • Christina Krakovsky
      Pages 181-200
    3. “The Voice Kids” Scandal in Russia: How the Voiceless Found Their Voice

      • Galina Lukyanova, Arkadii Solovev
      Pages 201-217

About this book

This book presents research on mediated scandals and substantiates the understanding of such forms of scandals and their impact on societies. Additionally, it connects the study of scandals with the broader fields of political communication research, organizational communication, journalism studies, and digital communication research.

The authors focus on the 21st century as an age of perpetual scandalization and on digital technologies as a catalyst in this respect. Against this backdrop, the book examines different aspects of the transformation of mediated scandals through digital communication practices.


Topics covered include, but are not limited to, the scandalizing potential of new media and the requirement of modified strategies of reputation management and crisis communication in politics, the entertainment industry, and the economic system among others; a different perspective on professional journalism and scandals created through new media; technological infrastructure and digital tools allowing journalists to establish new means to investigate hard scandals, i.e., substantial financial or political wrongdoings by the economic and political elite.

The book, therefore, is a must-read for researchers and scholars from different disciplines, as well as practitioners and policy-makers interested in a better understanding of the study of scandals, their impact on societies, and their catalyzation through new media.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Applied Sciences Kufstein Tyrol, Kufstein, Tyrol, Austria

    André Haller

  • Institute of Communication Studies, University of Bamberg, Bamberg, Germany

    Hendrik Michael, Lucas Seeber

About the editors

André Haller is professor for Marketing, Communication Management, and Digital Marketing at the University of Applied Sciences Kufstein Tyrol (Austria). His research interests are: digital campaigns, political communication, and scandal and crisis communication.

Hendrik Michael is a research assistant at the Institute of Communication Studies at the University of Bamberg (Germany). His research focus is on theories of journalism, transformations of media genres, and journalistic storytelling.

Lucas Seeber is a research assistant at the Institute of Communication Studies at the University of Bamberg (Germany). His research focus is on strategic and political communication, digital transformation, and campaign communication.



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Softcover Book USD 159.99
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Hardcover Book USD 159.99
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