Power of Scandal : : Semiotic and Pragmatic in Mass Media / / P. Johannes Ehrat, SJ.
Are there events that are inherently scandalous? Power of Scandal finds that the very idea of 'scandal' is derived not from an event, but from public opinion - which, in turn, is construed by media narratives. Scandal is powerful because of its ability to challenge institutions by destabil...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017] ©2010 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (432 p.) :; 2 figures |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 A Theoretical Approach to the Nature of Media Scandal
- 2 What Is Publicity, the Public Sphere?
- 3 Semiotic of Publicity
- 4 Publicity in Media Theory
- 5 From Jubilation to Scandal
- 6 Judgment: Bringing into a Scandal- Position
- 7 The Course of the Scandal Pro-Gram
- 8 Effect and Reality of Scandal
- 9 Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index