Exposed: Living with Scandal, Rumour, and Gossip

By Mia-Marie Hammarlin

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 the urgent and fascinating questions that the book addresses. It also highlights the fusion between face-to-face communication and traditional news media. Gossip and rumour must be included in the idea of the media system for us to be able to understand the power of a media scandal, a finding leads to a critique of earlier research.

An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) licence.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9198376837
• ISBN13: 9789198376838
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Lund University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.6"