Scandal in a Digital Age [Paperback]

This book explores the way todays 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. Todays 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 cant help but click.

.Foreword Josephine Wolff.-

.Section I: Historical Perspectives on Scandal.-

.1 Introduction: Scandal in the Age of Likes, Selfies, Retweets and Sexts.-

.Hinda Mandell and Gina Masullo Chen.- 

.2 Scandals Role in Creating a Surveillance Culture J. Richard Stevens.- 

.3 Using Political Scandal to Limit Social Justice Neal Allen.- 

.4 Chappaquiddick Revisited: Scandal and the Modern Mediated Apologia Grant Cos.- 

.5 Televangelism, Audience Fragmentation, and the Changing Coverage of Scandal Mark Ward Sr.- 

.6: Imagining the Monica Lewinsky Scandal on Social Media.- David Dahl.- 

.Section II: When Privates Go Public.- 

.7 Scandal in the Age of Sexting Joshua Gamson.- 

.8 Anthony Weiner: A Meditation on the Politics of Prurient Need Steve Almond.-

.9 The Topless Professor in the Digital Age Diana York Blaine.-&nlÃ!