Power of scandal
Subtitle: semiotic and pragmatic in mass media
By: Johannes Ehrat
Series: Toronto studies in semiotics and communication; Toronto studies in semiotics and communication
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Toronto; Buffalo [N.Y.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 407
ISBN-13: 9781442641259
Subjects: Scandals in mass media; Mass media; Semiotics
Other titles: Semiotic and pragmatic in mass media
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [379]-402) and index.
Table of contents: title: A theoretical approach to the nature of media scandal. How scandal research tends to treat the achievement of media scandals ;; title: Scandal as logic : ideal and sanction ;; title: Scandal as industrial product and institutional practice ;; title: Media scandals and what they are not ;; title: Video-truths ;; title: Comprehending media scandals from media ;; title: Publicity narrative as precondition of scandals --; title: What is publicity, the public sphere?. Publicity as methodological construct ;; title: Publicity as simulacrum ;; title: Publicity and meaning as subsistence ;; title: Semiotic as theory of formal and concrete meaning --; title: Semiotic of publicity. Publicity as teleology ;; title: Legitimacy ;; title: Public opinion as historical-cultural role relation ;; title: Public opinion as theatre ;; title: Public opinion operates by constructing the role of enunciation instance --; title: Publicity in media theory. Media : functional or semiotic? ;; title: Is there a need for a separate semiotic media theory? ;; title: Signs of society ;; title: Functions of the three correlates in the media sign ;; title: Technological determination or sign process : the case of televangelism ;; title: Godcasting : meaning apparatuses of religious self-display --; title: From Jubilation to scandal. Religious meaning outside of public opinion ;; title: Television studies and aesthetic form ;; title: Media construction of religious space and time ;; title: The call forward ;; title: Witnessing ;; title: PrayTV yields to PreyTV : acts of televangelist authority ;; title: Primordial scandal religion --; title: Judgement : bringing into scandal-position. Scandal technique ;; title: Investigative journalism and objectivity ;; title: Metatexts : simplifying sanctions in public opinion texts ;; title: Deduction classes of scandal --; title: The course of the scandal pro-gram. Media scandal methods ;; title: Event : how destination in the Shanley story created the scandal ;; title: The role structure of the Shanley story ;; title: Two discursive scandal constructions ;; title: Reality : news practice between reality determination and satirical alienation --; title: Effect and reality of scandal. Scandal as objectivity effect ;; title: Objective scandal effects ;; title: Critique of subjectivity approaches and functionalism ;; title: Scandal effect as semiotic ;; title: Institutions as pragmatic predetermination of purpose ;; title: Delegitimization of an institution as purpose of media scandals --; title: Conclusion.