![]() ![]() ![]() The book offers varying case studies in viral opprobrium, from people guilty of serious misdeeds - Jonah Lehrer and Mike Daisey, who fabricated parts of a bestselling book and crowd-pleasing monologue, respectively - to those guilty only of bad taste and terrible misjudgment, like Justine Sacco, who was excoriated for tweeting as she left for vacation, “Going to Africa. The consequences for the people on both sides of Donglegate, and myriad others, have changed his mind. He admits having done it so often himself that he’s lost track of all the people he’s shamed. Shaming, he argues, isn’t a form of sadistic group madness it’s motivated by a righteous impulse to reform bad behavior and make the world a better place. Ronson acknowledges the allure of harnessing social media’s power to expose wrongdoing. The Welsh journalist and author of “The Psychopath Test” and “The Men Who Stare at Goats” traces the arc of public shaming from the early moments of satisfying schadenfreude to the devastating, often lasting effects of a shattered reputation for both the shamed and the shamers. The anecdote illustrates one of Ronson’s key points: What begins as a gleeful piling-on by Internet crusaders looking to deliver some well-deserved comeuppance doesn’t usually stop there. Simultaneously powerful and hilarious in the way only Jon Ronson can be, So Youve Been Publicly Shamed is a deeply honest book about modern life, full of eye-opening truths about the escalating war on human flaws - and the very scary part we all play in it. ![]() Some sent the woman vicious threats, and one person hacked into her employer’s website and crashed it. We are using shame as a form of social control. As many people as had congratulated the woman for taking a stand now came to the defense of the man who’d lost his job over a dumb joke. ![]()
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