Scandal Politics and Political Scandals in the Era of Digital Interactive Media

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Author(s): Kamil Demirhan (Bülent Ecevit University, Turkey)
Copyright: 2017
Pages: 26
Source title: Political Scandal, Corruption, and Legitimacy in the Age of Social Media
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Kamil Demirhan (Bülent Ecevit University, Turkey)and Derya Çakır-Demirhan (Bülent Ecevit University, Turkey)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-2019-1.ch002

Keywords: Information Science Reference / Political Science / Social Computing / Social Sciences & Humanities

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This study focuses on scandal politics and political scandals in the era of digital interactive media. Scandals are the part of symbolic power struggles. Media is one of the main actors of these struggles. In fact, political scandals have a constructive function in democracies because they help releasing corruptions. After scandals, the public get the opportunity to discuss on the legitimacy of political-legal institutions and political system. However, this discussion is not possible in the conditions of scandal politics. This study is interested in scandal politics and political scandals in the era of digital interactive media. It evaluates the maintaining role of traditional media in the era of digital media, and the potentials of digital interactive media to utilize the constructive functions of political scandals in democracies. The cases of WikiLeaks and Ashley Madison affair are used to evaluate the scandal politics and political scandals in the era of digital interactive media.

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