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Power of scandal : semiotic and pragmatic in mass media /
"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 de...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto ; Buffalo [N.Y.] :
University of Toronto Press,
[2011]
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| Colección: | Toronto studies in semiotics and communication.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- A theoretical approach to the nature of media scandal. How scandal research tends to treat the achievement of media scandals ; Scandal as logic : ideal and sanction ; Scandal as industrial product and institutional practice ; Media scandals and what they are not ; Video-truths ; Comprehending media scandals from media ; Publicity narrative as precondition of scandals
- What is publicity, the public sphere?. Publicity as methodological construct ; Publicity as simulacrum ; Publicity and meaning as subsistence ; Semiotic as theory of formal and concrete meaning
- Semiotic of publicity. Publicity as teleology ; Legitimacy ; Public opinion as historical-cultural role relation ; Public opinion as theatre ; Public opinion operates by constructing the role of enunciation instance
- Publicity in media theory. Media : functional or semiotic? ; Is there a need for a separate semiotic media theory? ; Signs of society ; Functions of the three correlates in the media sign ; Technological determination or sign process : the case of televangelism ; Godcasting : meaning apparatuses of religious self-display
- From Jubilation to scandal. Religious meaning outside of public opinion ; Television studies and aesthetic form ; Media construction of religious space and time ; The call forward ; Witnessing ; PrayTV yields to PreyTV : acts of televangelist authority ; Primordial scandal religion
- Judgement : bringing into scandal-position. Scandal technique ; Investigative journalism and objectivity ; Metatexts : simplifying sanctions in public opinion texts ; Deduction classes of scandal
- The course of the scandal pro-gram. Media scandal methods ; Event : how destination in the Shanley story created the scandal ; The role structure of the Shanley story ; Two discursive scandal constructions ; Reality : news practice between reality determination and satirical alienation
- Effect and reality of scandal. Scandal as objectivity effect ; Objective scandal effects ; Critique of subjectivity approaches and functionalism ; Scandal effect as semiotic ; Institutions as pragmatic predetermination of purpose ; Delegitimization of an institution as purpose of media scandals
- Conclusion.