So You've Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson (English) Paperback Book

Description: So You've Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson Now a New York Times bestseller and from the author of The Psychopath Test, a captivating and brilliant exploration of one of our worlds most underappreciated forces: shame. Its about the terror, isnt it? The terror of what? I said. The terror of being found out. 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 theyre being torn apart by an angry mob, jeered at, demonized, sometimes even fired from their job. A great renaissance of public shaming is sweeping our land. Justice has been democratized. The silent majority are getting a voice. But what are we doing with our voice? We are mercilessly finding peoples faults. We are defining the boundaries of normality by ruining the lives of those outside it. We are using shame as a form of social control. Simultaneously powerful and hilarious in the way only Jon Ronson can be, So Youve Been Publicly Shamed is a deeply honest book about modern life, full of eye-opening truths about the escalating war on human flaws - and the very scary part we all play in it. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Jon Ronsons books include the New York Times bestsellers The Psychopath Testand Lost at Sea: The Jon Ronson Mysteries, and international bestsellers Them: Adventures with Extremists and The Men Who Stare at Goats. He also cowrote the screenplay for Frank, which will be released in theaters August 2014, and which stars Michael Fassbender and Maggie Gyllenhaal. Ronson is a regular contributor toThis American Life and lives in London and New York City. Review "Gutsy and smart. Without losing any of the clever agility that makes his books so winning, he has taken on truly consequential material and risen to the challenge….fascinating…shocking…Mr. Ronsons gift for detail-picking is, as ever, a treat." –The New York Times"A sharp-eyed and often hilarious book…Jon Ronson has written a fresh, big-hearted take on an important and timely topic. He has nothing to be ashamed of." –NPR.org "A diligent investigator and a wry, funny writer, Ronson manages to be at once academic and entertaining." –The Boston Globe"This is a wonderful book." –Jon Stewart "This book really needed to be written." –Salon.com"Required reading for the internet age." – Entertainment Weekly"With an introspective and often funny lens, [Ronson] tracks down those whose blunders have exploded in the public eye…So Youve Been Publicly Shamed is an insightful, well-researched, and important text about how we react to others poor decisions." –The Huffington Post "Personable and empathetic, Ronson is an entertaining guide to the odd corners of the shame-o-sphere." –The Minneapolis Star Tribune"Its sharply observed, amusingly told, and, while its conclusions may stop just short of profound, the true pleasure of the book lies in arriving at those conclusions." –The Onion"Like all of Ronsons books, this one is hard to put down, but you will absolutely do so at some point to Google yourself." –TheMillions.com"An irresistibly gossipy cocktail with a chaser of guilt." –Newsday "With So Youve Been Publicly Shamed Ronson has written a timely, interesting and titillating read for any Internet drama junkie." –PopMatters.com"[A] simultaneously lightweight and necessary book." –Esquire"A work of original, inspired journalism, it considers thecomplex dynamics between those who shame and those who are shamed, both of whom can become the focus ofsocial medias grotesque, disproportionate judgments." –The Financial Times"[So Youve Been Publicly Shamed] is both entertaining and fair -- a balance we could use a lot more of, online and off." –Vulture "Ronson is an entertaining and provocative writer, with a broad reach …[So Youve Been Publicly Shamed] is a well-reported, entertainingly written account of an important subject." –The Oregonian"Ronson is a fun writer to read...fascinating." –Fast Company"I was mesmerized. And I was also disturbed." –Forbes"[So Youve Been Publicly Shamed] promises to be the most relevant book of the year." –FlavorWire "I was sickly fascinated by the book. I think its Ronsons best book." –Mark Frauenfelder for BoingBoing"With confidence, verve, and empathy, Ronson skillfully informs and engages the reader without excusing those caught up in the shame game. As he stresses, we are the ones wielding this incredible power over others lives, often with no regard for the lasting consequences of our actions." –Starred Booklist Review"Clever and thought-provoking, this book has the potential to open an important dialogue about faux moral posturing online and its potentially disastrous consequences." –Publishers Weekly"Relentlessly entertaining and thought-provoking." –The Guardian "Certainly, no reader could finish it without feeling a need to be gentler online, to defer judgment, not to press the retweet button, to resist that primal impulse to stoke the fires of shame." –The Times "Excruciating, un-put-downable…So Youve Been Publicly Shamed is a gripping read, packed with humor and compassion and Ronsons characteristic linguistic juggling of the poignant and the absurd." –Chapter16.org "A powerful and rewarding read, a book utterly of the moment."—The Hamilton Spectator"Ronson is a lovely, fluid writer, and he has a keen eye for painful, telling details." —The Bloomberg View"Fascinating and trenchant." –The Denver Post "[Ronson] is one of our most important modern day thinkers…[So Youve Been Publicly Shamed] is one of the most therapeutic books imaginable." – US News & Word Report"Personable and empathetic, Ronson is an entertaining guide to the odd corners of the shame-o-sphere." –The Houston Chronicle "[A] satirical Malcolm Gladwell… an accessible, fun read." – Everyday Ebook"We love Jon Ronson. Hes thoughtful and very funny. [So Youve Been Publicly Shamed] is a great book about the way the internet can gang up on people and shame them, when they deserve it, when they dont deserve it and its great." – Judd Apatow"Jon Ronson is unreal. So Youve Been Publicly Shamed –everyone should read that book. Hes one of my favorite human beings." – Bill Hader "[A] brilliant, thought-provoking book – a fascinating examination of citizen justice, which has enjoyed a great renaissance since the advent of the internet." – Tatler "A terrifying and keen insight into a new form of misguided mass hysteria." – Jesse Eisenberg "A fascinating exploration of modern media and public shaming… Its a great conversation starter. Is Twitter the new Salem Witch trials?"– Reese Witherspoon Review Quote "Gutsy and smart. Without losing any of the clever agility that makes his books so winning, he has taken on truly consequential material and risen to the challenge....fascinating...shocking...Mr. Ronsons gift for detail-picking is, as ever, a treat." - The New York Times "A sharp-eyed and often hilarious book...Jon Ronson has written a fresh, big-hearted take on an important and timely topic. He has nothing to be ashamed of." -NPR.org Excerpt from Book One This story begins in early January 2012, when I noticed that another Jon Ronson had started posting on Twitter. His photograph was a photograph of my face. His Twitter name was @Jon_Ronson. His most recent tweet, which appeared as I stared in surprise at his timeline, read: "Going home. Gotta get the recipe for a huge plate of guarana and mussel in a bap with mayonnaise :D #yummy." "Who are you?" I tweeted him. "Watching #Seinfeld. I would love a big plate of celeriac, grouper and sour cream kebab with lemongrass. #foodie," he tweeted. I didnt know what to do. -- The next morning I checked @Jon_Ronsons timeline before I checked my own. In the night he had tweeted, "Im dreaming something about #time and #cock." He had twenty followers. Some were people I knew from real life, who were probably wondering why Id suddenly become so passionate about fusion cooking and candid about dreaming about cock. -- I did some digging. I discovered that a young researcher, formerly of Warwick University, called Luke Robert Mason had a few weeks earlier posted a comment on the Guardian site. It was in response to a short video I had made about spambots. "Weve built Jon his very own infomorph," he wrote. "You can follow him on Twitter here: @Jon_Ronson." Oh, so its some kind of spambot, I thought. Okay. This will be fine. Luke Robert Mason must have thought I would like the spambot. When he finds out that I dont, hell remove it. So I tweeted him: "Hi!! Will you take down your spambot please?" Ten minutes passed. Then he replied, "We prefer the term infomorph ." I frowned. "But its taken my identity," I wrote. "The infomorph isnt taking your identity," he wrote back. "It is repurposing social media data into an infomorphic esthetic." I felt a tightness in my chest. "#woohoo damn, Im in the mood for a tidy plate of onion grill with crusty bread. #foodie," @Jon_Ronson tweeted. I was at war with a robot version of myself. -- A month passed. @Jon_Ronson was tweeting twenty times a day about its whirlwind of social engagements, its "soirees," and its wide circle of friends. It now had fifty followers. They were getting a disastrously misrepresentative depiction of my views on soirees and friends. The spambot left me feeling powerless and sullied. My identity had been redefined all wrong by strangers and I had no recourse. -- I tweeted Luke Robert Mason. If he was adamant that he wouldnt take down his spambot, perhaps we could at least meet? I could film the encounter and put it on YouTube. He agreed, writing that hed be glad to explain the philosophy behind the infomorph. I replied that Id certainly be interested to learn the philosophy behind the spambot. -- I rented a room in central London. I sat there, nervously waiting. On the dot of our prearranged meeting, Luke arrived with two other men--the team behind the spambot. All three were academics. They had met at Warwick University. Luke was the youngest of the three, handsome, in his twenties, a "researcher in technology and cyberculture and director of the Virtual Futures Conference," according to his online CV. David Bausola looked like a rakish teacher, the sort of person who might speak at a conference on the literature of Aleister Crowley. He was a "creative technologist" and the CEO of the digital agency Philter Phactory. Dan OHara had a shaved head, and eyes that were piercing and annoyed-looking. His jaw was clenched. He was in his late thirties, a lecturer in English and American literature at the University of Cologne. Before that, hed been a lecturer at Oxford. Hed coedited a book about J. G. Ballard, Extreme Metaphors , and another book, Thomas Pynchon: Schizophrenia & Social Control . As far as I understood it, David Bausola had done the actual building of the spambot, while the two other men provided "research and consultancy." I suggested that they sit in a row on the sofa so I could film them all in a single shot. Dan OHara gave the others a glance. "Lets play along," he said to them. They all sat, with Dan in the middle. "What do you mean by play along?" I asked him. "Its about psychological control," he said. "Do you think my having you in a row on the sofa is my way of psychologically controlling you?" I asked. "Absolutely," said Dan. "In what way?" I asked. "I do that with students," said Dan. "I put myself in a separate chair and put the students in a row on the sofa." "Why would you want to psychologically control some students?" I asked. Dan looked briefly worried that hed been caught saying something eerie. "In order to control the learning environment," he said. "Is this making you feel uncomfortable?" I asked him. "No, not really," said Dan. "Are you uncomfortable?" "Yes," I said. "Why?" Dan asked. I spelled out my grievances. "Academics," I began, "dont swoop into a persons life uninvited and use him for some kind of academic exercise, and when I ask you to take it down, youre, Oh, its not a spambot, its an infomorph ." Dan nodded. He leaned forward. "There must be lots of Jon Ronsons out there?" he began. "People with your name? Yes?" I looked suspiciously at him. "Im sure there are people with my name," I replied, carefully. "Ive got the same problem," said Dan, with a smile. He gave me an empathetic look. "Theres another academic out there with my name." "You dont have exactly the same problem as I do," I said, "because my exact problem is that three strangers have stolen my identity and have created a robot version of me and are refusing to take it down even though they come from respectable universities and give TEDx talks." Dan let out a long-suffering sigh. "Youre saying, There is only one Jon Ronson," he said. "Youre proposing yourself as the real McCoy, as it were, and you want to maintain that integrity and authenticity. Yes?" I stared at him. "I think we feel annoyed with you ," Dan continued, "because were not quite persuaded by that. We think theres already a layer of artifice and its your online personality--the brand Jon Ronson--youre trying to protect. Yeah?" "NO, ITS JUST ME TWEETING," I yelled. "The Internet is not the real world," said Dan. "I write my tweets," I replied. "And I press send. So its me on Twitter." We glared at each other. "Thats not academic," I said. "Thats not postmodern. Thats the fact of it." "This is bizarre," Dan said. "I find it really strange--the way youre approaching this. You must be one of the very few people who have chosen to come on Twitter and use their own name as their Twitter name. Who does that? And thats why Im a little suspicious of your motives, Jon. Thats why I say I think youre using it as brand management." I said nothing, but to this day it kills me that it didnt cross my mind to point out to him that Luke Robert Masons Twitter name is @LukeRobertMason. Our conversation continued like this for an hour. I told Dan that I have never used the term brand management in my life. "Language like that is alien to me," I said. "And thats the same with your spambot. Its language is different to mine." "Yes," the three men agreed in unison. "And thats whats annoying me so much," I explained. "Its a misrepresentation of me." "Youd like it to be more like you?" Dan said. "Id like it to not exist," I said. "Thats bizarre," said Dan. He let out an incredulous whistle. "I find something psychologically interesting about that." "Why?" I said. "I find that quite aggressive," he said. "Youd like to kill these algorithms? You must feel threatened in some way." He gave me a concerned look. "We dont go around generally trying to kill things we find annoying." "Youre a TROLL!" I yelled. -- After the interview was over, I staggered out into the London afternoon. I dreaded uploading the footage onto YouTube because Id been so screechy. I steeled myself for comments mocking my screechiness and I posted it. I left it up for ten minutes. Then, with apprehension, I had a look. "This is identity theft," read the first comment I saw. "They should respect Jons personal liberty." Wow, I thought, cautiously. "Somebody should make alternate Twitter accounts of all of those ass clowns and constantly post about their strong desire for child porn," read the next comment. I grinned. "These people are manipulative assholes," read the third. "Fuck them. Sue them, break them, destroy them. If I could see these people face to face I would say they are fucking pricks." I was giddy with joy. I was Braveheart, striding through a field, at first alone, and then it becomes clear that hundreds are marching behind me. "Vile, disturbing idiots playing with someone elses life and then laughing at the victims hurt and anger," read the next comment. I nodded soberly. "Utter hateful arseholes," read the next. "These fucked up academics deserve to die painfully. The cunt in the middle is a fucking psychopath." I frowned slightly. I hope nobodys going to actually hurt them, I thought. "Gas the cunts. Especially middle cunt. And especially left-side bald cunt. And especially quiet cunt. Then piss on their corpses," read the next comment. -- I won. Within days, the academics took down @Jon_Ronson. They had been shamed into acquiescence. Their public shaming had b Details ISBN1594634017 Author Jon Ronson Short Title SO YOUVE BEEN PUBLICLY SHAMED Language English ISBN-10 1594634017 ISBN-13 9781594634017 Media Book Format Paperback Residence London, ENK Birth 1967 Pages 336 DEWEY 152.44 Year 2016 Publication Date 2016-03-29 Country of Publication United States Illustrations Illustrations, unspecified AU Release Date 2016-03-29 NZ Release Date 2016-03-29 US Release Date 2016-03-29 UK Release Date 2016-03-29 Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc Imprint Riverhead Books,U.S. Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:141750761;

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