Call for Papers | "Scandals in New Media Environments"

This call invites submissions for the 3^rd International Conference in Scandalogy at the University of Bamberg from April 2^nd to April 4^th 2020.

The conference will focus on ¡°Scandals in New Media Environments¡± (for information about previous conferences, see here). The overarching theme serves a two-fold goal: On the one hand, we want to intensify research on mediated scandals (cf. Entman 2012; Burkhardt 2018) and substantiate our understanding of such forms of scandals and their impact on societies. On the other hand, we hope to connect the study of scandals with a larger scientific community in the broad field of digital communication research, be it in organizational communication, journalism studies, political communication research or other fields.

Even to the casual observer of media and society the conference theme appears timely because currently we seem to be living through an age of perpetual scandalization. Arguably, digital technologies are a catalyst in this respect. On an everyday basis, we can observe how social media offers new means to vent emotional attacks, spark outrage, or voice public discontent. Not only politicians, celebrities, and other individua