How the Internet led to a ‘renaissance’ of public shaming
Clip: 5/18/2015 | 5m 17s
How the Internet has become the our culture’s town square for public shaming.
In the age of social media, one poorly worded tweet is enough to destroy a career or even a life. Jeffrey Brown talks to Jon Ronson, the author of “So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed,” about numerous cases of people discovering the impact of social media the hard way, and how the Internet has become the our culture’s town square for public shaming.
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How the Internet led to a ‘renaissance’ of public shaming
Clip: 5/18/2015 | 5m 17s
In the age of social media, one poorly worded tweet is enough to destroy a career or even a life. Jeffrey Brown talks to Jon Ronson, the author of “So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed,” about numerous cases of people discovering the impact of social media the hard way, and how the Internet has become the our culture’s town square for public shaming.
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