Book announcement Scandal in a Digital Age

Book announcement

Scandal in a Digital Age, Hinda Mandell (hbmgpt@rit.edu), RIT, and Gina
M. Chen (gina.chen@austin.utexas.edu), The University of Texas at Austin
(editors)

Scandal in a Digital Age (eBook ISBN 978-1-137-59545-4, hardcover ISBN
978-1-137-59773-1, softcover ISBN 978-1-137-59774-8, Palgrave Macmillan)


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.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Scandal in an Age of Likes, Selfies, Retweets, and Sexts

Mandell, Hinda (et al.)


Scandal's Role in Creating a Surveillance Culture

Stevens, J. Richard


Using Political Scandal to Limit Social Justice

Allen, Neal


Chappaquiddick Revisited: Scandal and the Modern-Mediated Apologia

Cos, Grant


Televangelism, Audience Fragmentation, and the Changing Coverage of
Scandal

Ward, Mark


Imagining the Monica Lewinsky Scandal on Social Media

Dahl, David


Scandal in the Age of Sexting

Gamson, Joshua


Anthony Weiner: A Meditation on the Politics of Prurient Need

Almond, Steve


The Topless Professor in the Digital Age

Blaine, Diana York


An 'Office Sex Romp' and the Economic Motivations of Mediated Voyeurism

Kuehn, Kathleen M.


Over-Sharing in a Political Sex Scandal

Chen, Gina Masullo (et al.)


Media's Role in the Rob Ford "Crack-Tape" Scandal

Richardson, Gemma (et al.)


Scandal at the Top in TV News

Keith, Susan


Political Cartoon Framing of the NSA Snooping Scandal

Conners, Joan L.


Evolution of a Modern Sports Scandal

Moritz, Brian


Feminist Over-Sharing in the Wake of the Ray Rice Scandal

Matson, Erin


Conclusion: Predicting a New Scandal Environment in the Twenty-First
Century

Chen, Gina Masullo (et al.)