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Scandal in a Digital Age

Palgrave Macmillan
  • 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)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
  2. When Privates Go Public

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 75-75
    2. Scandal in the Age of Sexting

      • Joshua Gamson
      Pages 77-95
    3. The Topless Professor in the Digital Age

      • Diana York Blaine
      Pages 105-118
    4. Over-Sharing in a Political Sex Scandal

      • Gina Masullo Chen, Paromita Pain, Deepa Fadnis
      Pages 131-144
    5. Media’s Role in the Rob Ford “Crack-Tape” Scandal

      • Gemma Richardson, Romayne Smith Fullerton
      Pages 145-157
  3. Digital Surveillance

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 159-159
    2. Scandal at the Top in TV News

      • Susan Keith
      Pages 161-172
    3. Evolution of a Modern Sports Scandal

      • Brian Moritz
      Pages 185-199

About this book

This book explores the way today’s interconnected and digitized world--marked by social media, over-sharing, and blurred lines between public and private spheres--shapes the nature and fallout of scandal in a frenzied media environment. Today’s digitized world has erased the former distinction between the public and private self in the social sphere. Scandal in a Digital Age marries scholarly research on scandal with journalistic critique to explore how our Internet culture driven by (over)sharing and viral, visual content impacts the occurrence of scandal and its rapid spread online through retweets and reposts. No longer are examples of scandalous behavior “merely” reported in the news. Today, news consumers can see the visual evidence of salacious behavior whether through an illicit tweet or video with a simple click. And we can’t help but click.

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Communication, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, USA

    Hinda Mandell

  • School of Journalism, The University of Texas at Austin, Texas, USA

    Gina Masullo Chen

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 TimesChicago TribuneUSA TodayBoston HeraldPalm Beach PostPolitico, and in academic journals, including Women’s Studies in CommunicationVisual 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 ResearchNew Media & Society, and Computers in Human Behavior.>

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