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Ronson looks at the phenomenon of internet shaming both in those who did some public misdeed as well as others who made dumb, insensitive jokes, and how that shaming has reverberated in the lives of the shamees. It‘s an interesting read and makes me glad I don‘t use social media outside Litsy. (It looks at events in 2012 and remains very relevant.) #ReadYourEbooks

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The principal at my school got fired, our English department chair lost that position, and the two teachers who assigned this book to AP English students got letters in their file ... #controversyoverload.

I thought this was interesting and easy to read. It is a little dated and there is much that has happened since it was written but the idea is the same. I think Ronson does a good job of being authentic and working through things well. I like how he shares criticisms against him and the way he processes those things.

I want to specify that the book is good - it's well written, insightful, and has all the trademarks of Jon Robson's style that help keep you captivated. However, the subject matter to hand was to me his least interesting one yet. Compared to the psychopath test or the men who stare at goats, I found this had less to grip me in. Maybe it's just that I'm not as removed from this topic as the other stories, so felt like I already knew what happened

I didn't care for the writing; it felt scattered and many times I found myself wondering wth the sidetrack I was reading had to do with what came before it.

@dabbe I think it's a good book to try to teach that social media comments are real words with real consequences and I can't for the life of me believe how one parent caused pretty much what this book talks about at your school 🫨

Thanks to @dabbe 's most intriguing post, I'm diving into this one

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Talk about a discussion book: this one caused such an uproar in my district and high school that multiple “discussions“ occurred at board meetings until we now have a literature list that no teacher is allowed to deviate from. Discussions also resulted in my school's principal being fired, two English teachers having letters in their file, and the English chair losing her position. #grr

This book has been center to a MAJOR controversy at the school I just recently retired from; in fact, the principal has been let go because of it. It is glaringly apparent to me who read/did not read the entire novel now after having read it myself. And that includes EVERY SINGLE PARENT WHO HAS COMPLAINED ABOUT THE BOOK. It is a book trying to save our souls from not only being shamed but from shaming someone else and enjoying it.

I found a signed copy in a used bookstore and was so drawn in by the subject matter, I read it even after considering the mixed reviews. The criticisms are accurate on the whole—Ronson (c. 2015 anyway) isn‘t all that enlightened when it comes to gender, race, or sexuality and sometimes veers off. But I still found grappling with these stories of public shaming, with Ronson‘s interpretations, and my own feelings/experiences worthwhile. 🤷‍♀️

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Jon Ronson looks at people who've been the object of social media hate-fests and how they've recovered from the experience -- or not. Rather rambling but his tendency to hare off on tangents is a little more controlled than in the others of his books I've read.

I still liked this book the 2nd time around, but I noticed more flaws. The most egregious is the lack of any discussion about how much harsher women are treated in these cases. He mentions it, but there‘s no analysis. However, there‘s a section on a prisoner program developed by the NJ governor who went through a public shaming; none of the prisoners had though, so that discussion was irrelevant. The history of public shaming was interesting.

My new #audiowalk book. I‘ve read the book and liked it but thought I‘d give it a listen. Jon Ronson narrates the audio, and there‘s something I just don‘t like about his voice, but I can‘t place it.

I read this back when it first came out and gave it a positive review. @Megabooks just pointed out how tone deaf Ronson is towards women — how he doesn‘t see how public shaming is so much worse for women than it is for men. I‘m ashamed to say that I completely missed that the first time around so I‘m taking a little break from bratty Drue (Sunset Beach) to give this a listen. Nice evening walk. #audiowalk

Jon is tone deaf to women. He couldn‘t seem to see the people who had best survived shaming were men who paid for sex (embarrassing but they‘re getting laid) & men who had lied (who fared slightly worse). He didn‘t notice that women who are shamed are threatened with death & rape, things way out of proportion to a badly made joke or reporting one. He sort of figures this out in the new afterword. The book was interesting but frustrating. ⬇️

I'm into books on psychology, and I've liked Jon Ronson since I read The Psychopath Test. I'd say this book fulfilled my expectations and took some turns I didn't expect. Though I suppose I do expect that from Ronson.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Plagiarism, an ill judged Twitter joke, kinky sex and pornography are among the public shamings discussed in this book and the reactions of the shamees and shamed. What is shameful in today‘s society and why men and women are treated differently in MSM and SM. Very interesting topic. (CW: suicide and rape threats)

As an early adopter of social media, I got a job as a social media manager more than a decade ago. I worked in that capacity when this book came out, & it has been on my TBR since. How did we decide public shaming should be outlawed as cruel & unusual punishment then embrace it wholly online? In light of our current climate, I do feel like some people should be called out/called in. That tension, though!

Book #21: Glad the library is back open for curbside pickup! This one was a Booktube recommendation.

Oh, what a thought-provoking book! Timely and utterly relevant about public or online shaming and an examination of how we have become the objects and perpetrators of online prejudice and discrimination. My thoughts 👇 🤔

https://thevagabondlawyer.wordpress.com/2020/05/18/so-youve-been-publicly-shamed...

We've all been in that situation where our mouth acts before the brain engages. This book takes it a bit further and leaves you cringing at times at what people have said. That being said some of the chapters did drag on a little

This was just an okay read. Some parts were interesting, but I didn't understand why some of the chapters were in there.

This is my first Ronson, and I thoroughly enjoyed it! I will be reading more from him. While he moves through his own thoughts and questions organically, at times, the path wasn‘t as clear as I would have liked it to have been. He moves from Jonah Lehrer to mass shaming on Twitter to shaming as punishment to helping prisoners feel less shamed with a hundred stops between! 4⭐️

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Well, hmmm. One of the journalists mentioned SYBPS is someone I went to college with. I haven‘t had any contact since, but March of his senior year he asked me, “Is there a way for an employer to know you haven‘t minored in economics when you say you have?” Me, “They can ask for your transcript.” 🤦🏻‍♀️

He worked as an analyst on Wall Street for a year and wrote a book about it before becoming a journalist full time.

I‘m enjoying both books!

My social media focus book was absolutely engrossing but incredibly terrifying. Jon Ronson has a wonderful way of getting to the heart of issues with humour and without judgement, he reflects on how we can use the anonymity of the crowd on social media to destroy people as was done in the stocks centuries ago. A brilliant read, couldn't put it down.
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I read this between May 11 & 13th and gave it 3.5 stars on Good Reads. While an interesting topic and book, I felt it was just scratching the surface.

Currently reading this book. It‘s rather interesting, but I may take a break from it. I really want to start Liar of Dreams by Libba Bray.

“few weeks passed. And then I received an interesting e-mail from Max Moseley”

Punctuation and grammar is as it is in the book. It bugs me a bit. This is the second time a paragraph has started with a lowercase letter. Maybe it‘s because I‘m reading an ebook.

“It‘s about the terror, isn‘t it?”
“The terror of what?”
“The terror of being found out”

Too true.

Wow, this is interesting and a bit uncomfortable to read about. There have been times I‘ve felt sorry for people who have been shamed and others times I felt that they should have been shamed more.

A book about "public shamings" that are being conducted via social media, and the role we all play in it. Scary--you will want to delete your Facebook and Twitter accounts after reading what happened to the people profiled in the book. 3.5 stars

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What a fascinating book, and something I wish everyone would read before participating online. I don‘t 100% agree with all of Ronson‘s opinions — his white, male privilege for sure shines through at times — but this book was still a very interesting and significant read.

My first completed book for the #readathon and I loved it. I was a sociology major in college and collective behavior fascinates me anyway - but this was more than well researched and informative, it was just so entertaining. I don‘t think I‘ll ever view social media the same way again. I highly recommend. @DeweysReadathon

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Haven't read this one but the title seemed fitting for today

I found this book really interesting and it gave me a lot to think about. I didn‘t agree with everything he said though I guess I‘ll need to think about it all some more. I like this guys writing style but didn‘t enjoy as much as the Psychopath Test. I‘d love to hear from other people who liked/didn‘t like it what they thought?

Excited to be reading this! I love sociology and I loved The Psychopath Test so this should be really good. Really interesting to hear it in the authors own voice

Excited!

What does such a brutal public shaming do to a person? How does one recover from such profound humiliation? Ronson‘s book covers stories of shaming to varying degrees of disgrace to illustrate the point that pitchfork-wielding angry mobs are still alive and well—they (we) tar and feather the “offender” behind the anonymous safety of the internet now instead of in the streets. Why do we do this? Simply put: because we can, but also much more.

NOTE: The tagged book is not this book. This was an Audible exclusive which is not catalogued on Litsy.

I enjoyed this one! I had some issues with some of the chapters, but Jon Ronson answers the question he sets out to answer: what is the cost of "free" porn? He explores sexuality in the Internet age, which was especially interesting to me as a young Milennial. The chapter about the sex offender registry was fascinating.

Readable and thought-provoking account of the phenomenon of shaming in the social media era, with uncomfortable conclusions about the nastiness we are all capable of showing when we feel we are on the right side of the mob.

"But a wronged person is a wronged person, even when they're an unfashionable wronged person."