‘This is (not) Entertainment!’: media constructions of political scandal discourses in the 2016 US presidential election
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- The phenomenon of scandal(ization) has become omnipresent in contemporary political media discourses – at the latest since the 2016 US presidential election. Our article addresses causes and effects of this recent prevalence of scandal narratives. By connecting concepts from social systems theory and media theory, we consider crucial practices and processes of scandal construction in the 2016 US presidential election, focusing on the much-noticed emailgate and trumptape scandals. Both examples serve to illustrate how the emergence of partial public spheres in social media may lead to a fight for sovereignty over scandal discourse, political attitudes, and the negotiation of social norms,The phenomenon of scandal(ization) has become omnipresent in contemporary political media discourses – at the latest since the 2016 US presidential election. Our article addresses causes and effects of this recent prevalence of scandal narratives. By connecting concepts from social systems theory and media theory, we consider crucial practices and processes of scandal construction in the 2016 US presidential election, focusing on the much-noticed emailgate and trumptape scandals. Both examples serve to illustrate how the emergence of partial public spheres in social media may lead to a fight for sovereignty over scandal discourse, political attitudes, and the negotiation of social norms, morals, and values.…
Author: | Laura Vorberg, Anna ZeitlerORCiD |
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Persistent identifiers - URN: | urn:nbn:de:bvb:29-opus4-140894 |
Persistent identifiers - DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1177/0163443719833288 |
ISSN: | 0163-4437 |
ISSN: | 1460-3675 |
Title of the journal / compilation (English): | Media, Culture & Society |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Place: | Sage UK: London, England |
Document Type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Year of publication: | 2019 |
Date of first Publication: | 2019/05/01 |
Publishing Institution: | Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) |
Release Date: | 2020/07/09 |
Tag: | 2016 US presidential election; Clinton; Trump; mass media; media events; media scandal; political scandal; scandal; social media |
Volume/year: | 41 |
Issue: | 4 |
First Page: | 417 |
Last Page: | 432 |
Original publication: | Media, Culture & Society 41. 4 (2019): 417 - 432. <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0163443719833288> |
Institutes: | Forschungseinrichtungen |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 32 Politikwissenschaft / 320 Politikwissenschaft |
open_access (DINI-Set): | open_access |
Collections: | Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg / Eingespielte Open Access Artikel / Eingespielte Open Access Artikel 2020 |
Licence (German): |