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The Unleashed Scandal : The End of Control in the Digital Age.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Luton, Bedfordshire : Andrews UK Ltd., 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (239 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781845407667
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Unleashed ScandalDDC classification:
  • 303.4833
LOC classification:
  • HM851 -- .P647 2014eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Front matter -- Title page -- Publisher information -- Body matter -- I. The Unleashed Scandal: An Introduction -- II. The New Disclosers &amp -- the Old Media -- III. The New Victims &amp -- the Power of the Public -- IV. The New Technologies &amp -- the Opportunities of Ruthless Documentation -- V. The End of Control in the Digital Age: A Programmatic Résumé -- Back matter -- List of Figures -- The Authors.
Summary: In an age of ubiquitous digital media and permanent mutual observation scandals are omnipresent. Everybody can release them, everybody can become their victim. Videos on mobile phones terminate careers, Twitter messages generate outrage, and SMS messages turn into evidence. Documents of embarrassment and public disgrace today display a novel kind of lightness and agility. They can be copied in no time, spread very quickly, resist all censorship - and in the extreme case stir up worldwide indignation. The consequence: the reputation of the powerful and the powerless, of enterprises and states, can be destroyed in record time. In order to illustrate these considerations the books describes recent case-(hi)stories, discussing public figures such as Tiger Woods and Anthony Weiner, the powerful and the helpless that suddenly find themselves in a worldwide pillory.
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Cover -- Contents -- Front matter -- Title page -- Publisher information -- Body matter -- I. The Unleashed Scandal: An Introduction -- II. The New Disclosers &amp -- the Old Media -- III. The New Victims &amp -- the Power of the Public -- IV. The New Technologies &amp -- the Opportunities of Ruthless Documentation -- V. The End of Control in the Digital Age: A Programmatic Résumé -- Back matter -- List of Figures -- The Authors.

In an age of ubiquitous digital media and permanent mutual observation scandals are omnipresent. Everybody can release them, everybody can become their victim. Videos on mobile phones terminate careers, Twitter messages generate outrage, and SMS messages turn into evidence. Documents of embarrassment and public disgrace today display a novel kind of lightness and agility. They can be copied in no time, spread very quickly, resist all censorship - and in the extreme case stir up worldwide indignation. The consequence: the reputation of the powerful and the powerless, of enterprises and states, can be destroyed in record time. In order to illustrate these considerations the books describes recent case-(hi)stories, discussing public figures such as Tiger Woods and Anthony Weiner, the powerful and the helpless that suddenly find themselves in a worldwide pillory.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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