Media studies, Vol. 14 No. 28, 2023.
Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.20901/ms.14.28.4
From Questionable Incident to Political Scandal: The Ibiza Affair’s Scandalization on Twitter
Maximilian Eder
orcid.org/0000-0001-9055-4223
; Department of Media and Communication, LMU Munich
Abstract
Political scandals have become an everyday phenomenon, among other things, due to the crucial role of social media platforms as they shape how scandals unfold, are reported upon by journalists, and are perceived by the audience. This article examines the process of scandalization and journalistic discourse on Twitter in Germany and Austria against the background of the so-called Ibiza affair. Through a critical discourse analysis of 885 tweets from 149 influential political journalists, this study seeks to add to the understanding of scandalization on Twitter. Building upon the functional phase model by Burkhardt (2015, 2018), the study finds that those previously identified phases of a (political) scandal in print media coverage are shortened on Twitter, indicating a different scandalization dynamic on social media.
Keywords
Scandals; journalism practice; social media; Twitter
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313183
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Publication date:
9.1.2024.
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