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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A Gossip Politic
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…
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…