Dear Colleagues, with this e-mail I am inviting you to submit abstracts for a panel proposal on scandal communication for the 2018 ECREA conference in Lugano. We are particularly looking for papers on scandal communication in the network society. Since the deadline is fast approaching (Friday!), please submit your 500 word abstract as soon as possible to me: andre.haller@uni-bamberg.de<mailto:andre.haller@uni-bamberg.de> -- Cultures of outrage: Scandal coverage across borders Scandal research is characterized by a variety of affected social fields (e.g. political, judicial or economic scandals) and is topic of different disciplines such as communication studies, political science or sociology. What they have in common is that scandal coverage occurs in every liberal-democratic system and fulfills important social functions like monitoring powerful actors, for example politicians or companies (Burkhardt, 2006). However, scandal reporting differs from country to country and is dependent on various aspects on the macro-, meso- and micro-level, for instance: The culture of a society (Hondrich, 2002), different journalistic cultures (World of Journalism Study, 2017), legal backgrounds or characteristics of the audience. This panel proposal aims at contributors who study scandal coverage in their country and to those who conduct comparative analysis of scandal cases in different national contexts. The main aim of the panel is to present recent studies on the cross-cultural aspect in mediated scandalization. The scope of contributions may range from… 1. papers addressing macro-level constraints in scandal coverage like political, legal, historic frameworks or particularities of the media system, 2. contributions focusing on effects of scandal coverage and reasons for scandal reception by the audience, 3. to works in which the style of media coverage on scandalous cases, particularly by online media, is analyzed. Since this list of possible research areas is open-ended, contributions from other areas of communication studies and other methodological standpoints of the field are welcome. As the deadline of ECREA 2018 is approaching very fast (Friday, March 2nd 2018), contributions of no more than 500 words should be submitted to andre.haller@uni-bamberg.de -- Best regards, André Dr. André Haller Institut für Kommunikationswissenschaft Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg An der Weberei 5 / Raum 04.069 D-96045 Bamberg Tel.: +49 (0)951/863-2136 Fax: +49 (0)951/863-2159 E-Mail: andre.haller@uni-bamberg.de<https://mailex.uni-bamberg.de/owa/andre.haller@uni-bamberg.de> Website: http://www.uni-bamberg.de/kowi Twitter: @andrehaller <https://twitter.com/andrehaller/>