Preface

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 7
3. Acknowledgements 11
4. Preface 13
5. Introduction 17
6. I. Theory, concepts, and methodology
7. 1. Media hypes, moral panics, and the ambiguous nature of facts 39
8. 2. News waves in a changing media landscape 1950-2014 61
9. 3. The dynamics of media attention to issues 83
10. 4. Hype, argumentation, and scientific dissemination 115
11. II. Anatomy of self-reinforcing dynamics: Case studies
12. 5. The mechanisms of media storms 133
13. 6. Much ado about nothing 149
14. 7. From media wave to media tsunami 167
15. 8. How a small-scale panic turns into an unstoppable news wave about mass mugging on the beach 187
16. III. Impact on issues, crises, and public opinion
17. 9. Dynamics of media hype: Interactivity of the media and the public 211
18. 10. Why and how media storms affect front-line workers 229
19. 11. Media hypes and public opinion 249
20. 12. News waves generating attentionscapes 267
21. IV. Interactivity: The role of social media
22. 13. Modelling issue-attention dynamics in a hybrid media system 291
23. 14. You won’t believe how co-dependent they are 313
24. 15. From racial hoaxes to media hypes 333
25. 16. Reputational damage on Twitter #hijack 355
26. List of figures and tables 383
27. Index of names 385
28. Index of subjects 393