Digital Media, Denunciation and Shaming: The Court of Public Opinion [Hardcover]

This book offers a common set of concepts to help make sense of online shaming practices, accounting for instances of discrimination and injury that morally divide readers and at times risk unjust and disproportionate harm to those under scrutiny.

1.  Introducing the court of public opinion

2. Concerned individuals as participants and targets of shaming

3. Prominent users: (Micro-)celebrity and cancellation

4. Who runs the media? The role of platforms and press

5. The role of states: Police, polarisation and populism

6. Conclusion

Index

Daniel Trottier is Associate Professor of Global Digital Media in the Department of Media and Communication, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

Qian Huang is Assistant Professor in the Centre for Media and Journalism Studies, University of Groningen, the Netherlands.

Rashid Gabdulhakov is Assistant Professor in the Centre for Media and Journalism Studies, University of Groningen, the Netherlands.

This book offers a common set of concepts to help make sense of online shaming practices, accounting for instances of discrimination and injury that morally divide readers and at times risk unjust and disproportionate harm to those under scrutiny.

Digital media denunciation has become a primary form of expression and entertainment across media environments, with new socially desirable forms of accountability under movements such as #MeToo and #BlackLivesMatter addressing longstanding forms of systematic and interpersonal abuse. Building on recent scholarship on shaming, surveillance and denunciation in fixed contexts, this study generates a cross-contextual and multi-actor account of practices like cancel culturelÓG