Howard 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.

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Contributors; Introduction; Key concepts in media and scandal studies (Part I); Political context and media dynamics of scandals (Part II); Scandals and journalistic practices (Part III); Themes and settings of media and scandal (Part IV); Consequences and legacies of media scandals (Part V); Chapter 1: Media and scandal; Scandal-saturated societies; Scandals in the digital society; Scandals and globalization in the network society; The consequences of scandals; Conclusions; References

PART I: Key concepts in media and scandal studiesChapter 2: Scandal and social theory; Evolution of scandals; Durkheimian sociology; Tribal politics and moral leadership; The new public sphere; Conclusion; References; Chapter 3: Media coverage of political scandals: effects of personalization and potential for democratic reforms; Defining scandal; Case studies of policy scandals; References; Chapter 4: Moral panics; A half-century of change; Four unresolved epistemological issues; Conclusion: abandon the concept, continue the agenda; References; Chapter 5: Scandals and agenda setting

Agenda setting and scandals before the growth of the WebAgenda setting and scandals in the period 2005-2014; Agenda setting and scandals in the age of fake news, bots, and computational propaganda; References; Chapter 6: Mediatization and political scandal; The institutional logic of mediatization; The network logic of mediatization; The political logic of mediatization; References; Chapter 7: Scandal and news values; Introduction; News values; A brief history of scandal; Scandal: a definition; The functions of scandal; Political scandal in authoritarian societies; Conclusion; Notes

How the media frame scandals: evidence from the plagiarism scandal of the German Secretary of DefenseConclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 11: Fake news and scandal; Introduction; Four misunderstandings of fake news; Digital disinformation in the Philippines; Conclusion and discussion: fake news and scandal; Acknowledgments; References; PART II: Political context and media dynamics of scandals; Chapter 12: New Nordic noir: political scandals as drama and media hunts; Scandals, news competition and media dramaturgy; The increasing incidence of mediated Nordic scandals

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