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Berlusconi, Sex, and the Avoidance of a Media Scandal
In: Italian politics: a review ; a publication of the Istituto Cattaneo, Band 25, Heft 1
ISSN: 2326-7259
Media Scandals as Fake News is Dangerous for the National Security
In: Przegląd politologiczny: kwartalnik = Political science review, Heft 4, S. 31-37
ISSN: 1426-8876
In a Requiem for Media Jean Baudrillard described the civil war in Timisoara, Romania, in 1989. He discovered that the war was to a large extent instigated by the mass media. Nowadays, the media have the possibility to decontextualize events and objectify them by placing them in a different context, alongside other decontextualized events. This could be very dangerous and lead to serious national security problems. Media could provoke social turbulence and "real" crimes. My aim in this paper is to describe this problem and show possible solutions. While following the methodology adopted, I examine case studies and analyze specific historical events.
Scandal Potential: How Political Context and News Congestion Affect the President's Vulnerability to Media Scandal
In: British journal of political science, Band 45, Heft 2, S. 435-466
ISSN: 1469-2112
Despite its importance in contemporary American politics, presidential scandal is poorly understood within political science. Scholars typically interpret scandals as resulting from the disclosure of official misbehavior, but the likelihood and intensity of media scandals is also influenced by the political and news context. This article provides a theoretical argument for two independent factors that should increase the president's vulnerability to scandal: low approval among opposition party identifiers and a lack of congestion in the news agenda. Using new data and statistical approaches, I find strong support for both claims. These results suggest that contextual factors shape the occurrence of political events and how such events are interpreted. Adapted from the source document.
Scandal Potential: How Political Context and News Congestion Affect the President's Vulnerability to Media Scandal
In: British journal of political science, Band 45, Heft 2, S. 435-466
ISSN: 1469-2112
Despite its importance in contemporary American politics, presidential scandal is poorly understood within political science. Scholars typically interpret scandals as resulting from the disclosure of official misbehavior, but the likelihood and intensity of media scandals is also influenced by the political and news context. This article provides a theoretical argument for two independent factors that should increase the president's vulnerability to scandal: low approval among opposition party identifiers and a lack of congestion in the news agenda. Using new data and statistical approaches, I find strong support for both claims. These results suggest that contextual factors shape the occurrence of political events and how such events are interpreted.
Scandal Potential: How Political Context and News Congestion Affect the President's Vulnerability to Media Scandal
In: British journal of political science, Band 45, Heft 2, S. 435-466
ISSN: 0007-1234
Leaks-based journalism and media scandals: From official sources to the networked Fourth Estate?
In: European journal of communication, Band 33, Heft 3, S. 255-270
ISSN: 1460-3705
This article offers a comparative study of three media scandals arising from two types of leaks: official ones (the Monedero Case and the Pujol Case) and those originating from citizens (the Falciani List). Official leaks are carried out by elites and respond to private/partisan interests. Citizens' leaks come from anonymous individuals who deliver huge databases to the media for journalistic treatment. Our objective is to analyse the coverage received by both types of leaks in the Spanish press. The results show the use of official leaks as a political weapon in Polarized Pluralism media systems. Scandals based on citizens' leaks, which refer to transnational problems with greater ramifications, receive less attention. We discuss the extent to which the polarization of conventional political communication has increased and the future of new formats of information based on citizens' digital participation in an emerging Networked Fourth Estate.
Media Scandals Are Political Events: How Contextual Factors Affect Public Controversies over Alleged Misconduct by U.S. Governors
In: Political research quarterly: PRQ ; official journal of the Western Political Science Association and other associations, Band 70, Heft 1, S. 223-236
ISSN: 1938-274X
When political scandals erupt in the press, we usually blame misconduct by public officials, but these episodes are political events whose occurrence and severity also depend in part on the political and media context. Using data on U.S. governors, I show that several key factors affect the likelihood and intensity that alleged misconduct will be politicized by the opposition and publicized by the press. First, lower approval ratings, which decrease the cost of politicizing and publicizing an allegation, are generally associated with more frequent and intense media scandals. By contrast, competing news events can crowd potential scandals off the news agenda. However, no evidence is found that opposition control of state political institutions leads to more media scandal. These results suggest that the occurrence of media scandal depends more on circumstance than we typically assume.
Japanese scandals and their production
In: Media, Culture & Society, Band 44, Heft 1, S. 3-21
ISSN: 1460-3675
This treatise conflates cultural sociology, media theory, and Japanese philology in order to better understand the way media scandals are produced in contemporary Japan. In cultural sociology, scandal is understood as a social performance between ritual and strategy. In my previous research I focused on the ritual aspect, analyzing Japanese scandals as dramatic public performances of confession, exclusion, and reintegration. In this treatise, I focus on the strategy aspect, approaching scandals as symbolic products of media routines and journalistic practices. The former part of this treatise examines how the actor-network of power circles co-defines the way scandals emerge and unfold in Japan. The latter part focuses on the role of Japanese media organizations in the process of transforming leaks into scandals.
Scandal in the Time of the New Media
In: Analyses of social issues and public policy, Band 15, Heft 1, S. 444-446
ISSN: 1530-2415
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Scandals, Media, and Citizenship in Contemporary Argentina
In: American behavioral scientist: ABS, Band 47, Heft 8, S. 1072-1098
ISSN: 1552-3381
This article examines several scandals in 1990s Argentina to discuss the linkages between scandals, media, and citizenship. Suggesting that media publicity is central for scandals to unfold, the article examines a particular arms scandal. An institutional approach that considers the role of different political actors in different scandals shows how and why the media and other institutions contributed to the making and unmaking of scandals. Although scandals offer opportunities for "doing politics by other means," not all actors are similarly involved. Scandals that dealt with official corruption mainly featured political elites, whereas scandals that followed revelations about human rights violations showed a different pattern: public outrage and citizens'mobilization. In a political context of "scandal fatigue," scandals do not necessarily trigger public action or moral crusades. Only those scandals that directly affected groups of citizens and were not simply causes d'état were followed by public demonstrations and intense audience attention.
Political scandals and media across democracies
In: American behavioral scientist: ABS, Band 47, Heft 8, S. 1031-1137
ISSN: 0002-7642
Scandals, Media, and Citizenship in Contemporary Argentina
In: American behavioral scientist: ABS, Band 47, Heft 8, S. 1072-1098
ISSN: 0002-7642
Peepshow: Media and Politics in an Age of Scandal
In: Public opinion quarterly: journal of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, Band 67, Heft 2, S. 302-304
ISSN: 0033-362X