Overview
- Details how scandal functions as a cultural institution in local and global modes alike.
- Investigates the impacts of internet culture the occurrence of scandal and its rapid spread online.
- Places academics in dialogue with journalists, demonstrating how the two methods of writing about and analyzing scandal work together rather than oppose one another.
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Historical Perspectives on Scandal
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When Privates Go Public
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About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Hinda Mandell is Assistant Professor in the School of Communication at Rochester Institute of Technology, USA. She researches news coverage of scandal, and her essays on the topic have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, USA Today, Boston Herald, Palm Beach Post, Politico, and in academic journals, including Women’s Studies in Communication, Visual Communication Quarterly, and Explorations in Media Ecology.
Gina Masullo Chen is Assistant Professor in the School of Journalism at The University of Texas at Austin, USA. She spent twenty years as a newspaper journalist and her research focuses on the influence of digital media on civic, political, and social engagement. Her work has been published in academic journals, including Communication Research, New Media & Society, and Computers in Human Behavior.>
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Scandal in a Digital Age
Editors: Hinda Mandell, Gina Masullo Chen
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59545-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-59773-1Published: 03 August 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-137-59774-8Published: 27 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-59545-4Published: 10 August 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 224
Topics: Media Studies, Sociology of Culture, Journalism, Political Science, Cultural Studies