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Cover -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Hans Mathias Kepplinger -- Introduction -- Peter Vasterman -- I. Theory, concepts, and methodology -- 1. Media hypes, moral panics, and the ambiguous nature of facts -- Urban security as discursive formation -- Marcello Maneri -- 2. News waves in a changing media landscape 1950-2014 -- Wouter van Atteveldt, Nel Ruigrok, Kasper Welbers, and Carina Jacobi -- 3. The dynamics of media attention to issues -- Towards standardizing measures, dimensions, and profiles -- Stefan Geiß -- 4. Hype, argumentation, and scientific dissemination -- Adam Auch -- II. Anatomy of self-reinforcing dynamics: Case studies -- 5. The mechanisms of media storms -- Anne Hardy -- 6. Much ado about nothing -- Five media hypes in a comparative perspective -- Charlotte Wien -- 7. From media wave to media tsunami -- The 'Charter of Values' debate in Quebec, 2012-2014 -- Thierry Giasson, Marie-Michèle Sauvageau, and Colette Brin -- 8. How a small-scale panic turns into an unstoppable news wave about mass mugging on the beach -- Gonçalo Pereira Rosa -- III. Impact on issues, crises, and public opinion -- 9. Dynamics of media hype: Interactivity of the media and the public -- Ik Jae Chung -- 10. Why and how media storms affect front-line workers -- Scandalized Danish crèches as an example. -- Pernille Carlsson and Christian Elmelund-Præstekær -- 11. Media hypes and public opinion -- Human interest frames and hype fatigue -- Audun Beyer and Tine Ustad Figenschou -- 12. News waves generating attentionscapes -- Opportunity or a waste of public time? -- Marianne Paimre and Halliki Harro-Loit -- IV. Interactivity: The role of social media -- 13. Modelling issue-attention dynamics in a hybrid media system -- Annie Waldherr -- 14. You won't believe how co-dependent they are

The word media hype is often used as rhetorical argument to dismiss waves of media attention as overblown, disproportional and exaggerated. But these explosive news waves, as well as - nowadays - the twitter storms, are object of scientific research, because they are an important phenomenon in the public area. Sometimes it is indeed 'much ado about nothing' but in many cases these media storms have play an important role in political issues, scandals and crises. Twitter storms sometimes ruin reputations within hours.
Although different concepts are used, such as media hypes, news waves, media storms, information cascades or risk amplification, all the studies in this book refer to the same process in which key events trigger a chain of reactions and interactions, building up huge news waves in the media or rapidly spreading social epidemics in the social media.