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So You've Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson

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Book name: So You've Been Publicly Shamed (2024)
Category: Nonfiction
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Pages: 290 pages
ISBN13: 1594487138
ISBN: 1594487138
Language: English
Publication data: March 31, 2015, 7 a.m.
For the past three years, Jon Ronson has travelled the world meeting recipients of high-profile public shamings. The shamed are people like us - people who, say, made a joke on social media that came out badly, or made a mistake at work. Once their transgression is revealed, collective outrage circles with the force of a hurricane and the next thing they know they're being torn apart by an angry mob, jeered at, demonized, sometimes even fired from their job. People are using shame as a form of social control.

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Jon Ronson

Jon Ronson

3 books

Jon Ronson is a British-American journalist, author, and filmmaker. He is known for works such as Them: Adventures with Extremists (2001), The Men Who Stare at Goats (2004), and The Psychopath Test (2011).
He has been described as a gonzo journalist, becoming a faux-naïf character in his stories. He produces informal but sceptical investigations of controversial fringe politics and science. He has published nine books and his work has appeared in publications such as The Guardian, City Life and … Read more