Across
- 2. media Industry that transformed scandal into profit in the early 20th century
- 4. Medieval term meaning a spiritually bound confidant, later distorted into a slur
- 6. Gendered label applied to women’s information exchange, but rarely to men’s
- 7. Tension between transparency and personal boundaries in public life
Down
- 1. Collective judgment of an individual that define his social standing shaped by rumours rather than formal evidence
- 3. digital Mechanisms that now influence the content we consume and mediate belief more than institutions do
- 5. Question at the heart of modern gossip: not what is said, but who is believed
