mihrreader 's review for:

So You've Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson

3.75

informative reflective sad fast-paced

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This is a pretty interesting look into public shaming as it manifests in the modern era on social media, told through the personal accounts of several victims of public social-media shaming.  It doesn't offer much in the way of definitive conclusions about healing after such shaming, but posits a few different coping strategies that are appropriately contextualized for each victim's circumstances.  My biggest takeaway from this book--which is a reinforcement of a belief I held coming into reading this book--is that [public] shaming is an immensely powerful and deeply harmful tool of social control that, when wielded indiscriminately and with gleeful malice online, does far more harm than good.