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So You've Been Publicly Shamed is a 2015 book by British journalist Jon Ronson about online shaming and its historical antecedents. [2] The book explores the re-emergence of public shaming as an Internet phenomenon, particularly on Twitter. As a state-sanctioned punishment, public shaming was popular in Colonial America.
Public humiliation or public shaming is a form of punishment whose main feature is dishonoring or disgracing a person, usually an offender or a prisoner, especially in a public place. It was regularly used as a form of judicially sanctioned punishment in previous centuries, and is still practiced by different means (e.g. schools) in the modern era.
Shame is a discrete, basic emotion, described as a moral or social emotion that drives people to hide or deny their wrongdoings. [1] [2] Moral emotions are emotions that have an influence on a person's decision-making skills and monitors different social behaviors. [2]
Online shaming is a form of public shaming in which internet users are harassed, mocked, or bullied by other internet users online.This shaming may involve commenting directly to or about the shamed; the sharing of private messages; or the posting of private photos.
In response to the public shaming of the developers, Internet users who were uninvolved launched a DDoS attack on the woman's employer, SendGrid, and according to an article by Jon Ronson in The New York Times Magazine, demanded her firing. [5] SendGrid subsequently terminated her employment later the same day.
And that should have been the end of another ordinary day in one of Rocklin’s seventh-grade classrooms. Instead, it was the beginning of a nightmare that Ragan is still living eight months later ...
To name and shame is to "publicly say that a person, group or business has done something wrong". [1] It is a form of public shaming used to rally popular opinion against and, in turn, discourage certain kinds of behavior or enterprises.
So You've Been Publicly Shamed: Picador, paperback, ISBN 978-0-33049-228-7: October 2016: The Elephant in the Room: A Journey into the Trump Campaign and the 'Alt-Right' E-book, Kindle single: October 2017: The Butterfly Effect: podcast series 3 January 2019: The Last Days of August: Audible Originals, Audio book 13 April 2023