num_pages: 290
description: 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.
language: English
title: So You've Been Publicly Shamed
publisher: Riverhead Books