Shame, Guilt, Narrative and Twitter: “I mean just try to see it human, see it human…”
There was fascinating discussion on BBC Radio Four’s Start the Week, on the scaling of public shame. It should be available later today as a sound file. Core to the conversation is Jon Ronson, and the thesis in his latest book is that Twitter has taken shaming to an extravagant and social destructive extent. Despite advocating the positive use of public shaming (she gives a powerful example of it’s use in California to get tax refusers to cough up what …