Full team participation in the 6th Scandalogy conference in Hamburg

The team contributed to the conference in the following ways: 

• Eva Frijns presented the first paper from her PhD dissertation on influencer scandalization, victimhood and outrage in a Nordic welfare context
• Mikkel Bækby Johansen presented a paper, co-authored by Anne Jerslev, on culture war scandals, mapping complexity in the case of former Harvard president Claudine Gay
• Manuel Menke co-organized a panel on “Victimhood in Scandal and Scandalous Victimhood” with Monika Verbalyte
• Anne Jerslev and Nete Nørgaard Kristensen introduced the new concept “scandalization by association” to designate celebrities’ constant risk of being pulled into scandal as a consequence of celebrity culture’s visibility paradigm

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