So You've Been Publicly Shamed

In a captivating and brilliant exploration of one of our world's most underappreciated forces: shame, Jon Ronson has traveled the world meeting recipients of high-profile public shaming. 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.