I have quite literally put this review off for most of 2015. I read it in March! My feelings for it are not very complicated: I liked it. I liked it a lot. It’s just that the subject matter is itself complicated and worthy of a better review than I am able to give it. Especially since I’ve left the review til December 30th. Ronson centers his book on the phenomenon of internet shaming. Internet shaming might be new, but shaming in and of itself […]
Maybe its disjointedness is on purpose?
Jon Ronson has also written a book about extremists called Them, which I’ve heard of but never read, and he wrote the book Men with Goats, which was adapted into a movie that I know I saw but possess no recollection of. I heard about this book — The Psychopath Test — on the Daily Show a few years ago. I placed it on my TBR list and pretty much forgot all about it until I saw it at the library this weekend. “Suddenly, madness was everywhere, and I was […]
A study in how we troll and shame each other–with a real-life example
I’ve never thought consciously about public shaming, but I’ve seen its effects on the internet, and seen an alarming increase in the incidents occurring. One actually came to my university campus. I won’t mention names, but you can probably get a result via Google. A doctoral student in a humanities department (not mine) teaching a freshman-level gen-ed course was discussing the Rawles principle and current social issues that violated it. A student brought up bans on gay marriage, and she affirmed the student for the […]