An edition of Power of scandal
(2011)
Power of scandal
semiotic and pragmatic in mass media
by Johannes Ehrat
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Power of scandal: semiotic and pragmatic in mass media
2011, University of Toronto Press
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Table of Contents
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [379]-402) and index.
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