This is not a work of fiction.
This is not simply a book about shame.
This is a book about us.
About us and our ability to ruin lives as easily a few keystrokes and a click.
So You've Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson is a non-fictional book beginning with Ronson discovering how influential online shaming via a incident with a Twitter spambot. As a result of this incident, Ronson goes on to investigate notable incidents where public shaming played a huge role, interviewing people involved in various shame fests such as a writer caught fabricating a quote, a normal person who made one bad tweet, a 4Chan user.
So You've Been Publicly Shamed is a dialogue on how we use social media today and how we use shame to tear others down and how we're influenced by others and how we use shame to make ourselves feel better.
And though Ronson's book is dark, there are messages that needed to be said within the book. Shame can be a powerful tool against oppressors. Yet, oppressors have an equally powerful tool, it is Shame.
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