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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.
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.
Naming and shaming is a common strategy to compel and deter changes in state and non-state behavior. It is a prevalent strategy when states engage in human rights abuses. [8] [9] [10] It has also been used to compel improvements in environmental policies, [11] [12] stopping whaling being one such example.
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 ...
In 2015, Jon Ronson, author of "So You've Been Publicly Shamed", said that reputation management helped some people who became agoraphobic due to public humiliation from online shaming, but that it was an expensive service that many could not afford. [27] [28]
You have to flow and honor where you're at,” she says. “If my body is saying, ‘You're going to chill out,’ I'm going to listen to that. I'm going to move with and connect to what my body ...