Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface / Kepplinger, Hans Mathias -- Introduction / Vasterman, Peter -- I. Theory, concepts, and methodology -- 1. Media hypes, moral panics, and the ambiguous nature of facts / Maneri, Marcello -- 2. News waves in a changing media landscape 1950-2014 / Atteveldt, Wouter van / Ruigrok, Nel / Welbers, Kasper / Jacobi, Carina -- 3. The dynamics of media attention to issues / Geiß, Stefan -- 4. Hype, argumentation, and scientific dissemination / Auch, Adam -- II. Anatomy of self-reinforcing dynamics: Case studies -- 5. The mechanisms of media storms / Hardy, Anne -- 6. Much ado about nothing / Wien, Charlotte -- 7. From media wave to media tsunami / Giasson, Thierry / Sauvageau, Marie-Michèle / Brin, Colette -- 8. How a small-scale panic turns into an unstoppable news wave about mass mugging on the beach / Rosa, Gonçalo Pereira -- III. Impact on issues, crises, and public opinion -- 9. Dynamics of media hype: Interactivity of the media and the public / Chung, Ik Jae -- 10. Why and how media storms affect front-line workers / Carlsson, Pernille / Elmelund-Præstekær, Christian -- 11. Media hypes and public opinion / Beyer, Audun / Figenschou, Tine Ustad -- 12. News waves generating attentionscapes / Paimre, Marianne / Harro-Loit, Halliki -- IV. Interactivity: The role of social media -- 13. Modelling issue-attention dynamics in a hybrid media system / Waldherr, Annie -- 14. You won't believe how co-dependent they are / Roese, Vivian -- 15. From racial hoaxes to media hypes / Cerase, Andrea / Santoro, Claudia -- 16. Reputational damage on Twitter #hijack / Pang, Augustine / Limsico, Jeremiah Icanh Lim / Phong, Lishan / Lareza, Bernadette Joy Lopez / Low, Sim Yee -- List of figures and tables -- Index of names -- Index of subjects

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This anthology offers the first comprehensive overview of media hype, a phenomenon often dismissed as ephemeral and unimportant. Despite that reputation, media storms actually do play an important role in political issues, scandals, and crises, sometimes creating an important shift in public opinion over the course of only a few hours. This book provides an overview of theoretical, conceptual, and methodological issues related to media hype through close explorations of case studies from around the world.

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