This book makes explicit the historical, technological, and discursive links between gossip as a mode of communication, news media, and contemporary politics. A Gossip Politic advances a new framework of gossip, applying the informal understanding of the term to news talk and political actors. Authored by esteemed scholars in the fields of Political Science, Media…
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Exposed
This book illuminates the personal experience of being at the centre of a media scandal. It applies ethnological perspectives to empirical materials from a Swedish context to highlight the existential level of the phenomenon. How does it feel to be exposed through scandalisation? How does such an experience affect a person’s everyday life? These are…

14 Times Celebs Spoke Out Against Harmful (And Untrue) Stories About Themselves That Were Spreading Online – BuzzFeed
In a video posted to her blog, she continued, “Forget my childhood, forget that now, as an adult, I thought, you know, bullying would be done, but in my world, it’s not done … I live in a world where there’s magazines and blogs, and people feel like they are allowed to criticize me, and…