Scandology 3

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.

• Introduction.- Part 1 - Scandals and Digital Publics: Transformations of Power and Visibility.- Social Amplification of Scandals: One Social Media Effect.- Scandalous Criticism in the Speakers’ Corner: Online and Offline Reactions to Rezo’s The Destruction of the CDU and Jan Böhmermann’s #neustart19.- Are we living in a post scandal era? High-choice media environments, political polarization and their consequences for political scandals.- Part 2 - Forms, Functions, and Practices of Scandal Reporting in changing Media Environments.- Gossip as journalism and journalism as gossip: A cultural history investigation of two royal sex scandals in Sweden 1890 and 2010.- Italian newspapers and corruption scandals coverage: the construction of the “parallel trial”.- Part 3 - Scandals, New Media and the Historical Perspective.- Early Modern Sermon and Scandalization? The Sermons of the Jesuit Georg Scherer (1540-1605).- Revenge for Caligula!“ Ludwig Quidde, Wilhelm II and the scandal of 1894.- Having the Last Laugh: Scandalous Character Assassination in Comedy in Classical Athens and the Current-Day United States.- Part 4 - New Media, Scandals in Culture, and Public Protest.- Hips don’t lie: Visual resistance to discoursal normalization of sexual violence in the Israeli SlutWalk movement.- Scandalogy Meets Field Theory. Utilizing Scandal Theory for the Analysis of Journalistic Practices Over Time.- “The Voice Kids” Scandal in Russia: How the Voiceless Found Their Voice.