So You've Been Publicly Shamed

Jon Ronson

Dec 2015 · Pan Macmillan

About this ebook

Celebrating Fifty Years of Picador Books

Jon Ronson's captivating and brilliant exploration of one of our world's most underappreciated forces: shame.

‘It’s about the terror, isn’t it?’
‘The terror of what?’ I said.
‘The terror of being found out.’

The rise of social media has seen a great renaissance in public shaming. Justice has been democratized. The silent majority are getting a voice. But what are we doing with that voice? We are mercilessly finding people’s faults, and 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 You’ve 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.

This edition features a new chapter and interview with perhaps the most famous public shaming victim of all – Monica Lewinsky.

Part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature.

Ratings and reviews

This is the review for the ebook in Google store not the actual book which I believe to be very good what small part of it I was able to read before it was rudely cut off. It's in my purchases but I get a message telling me to buy the rest of the book after flipping to page 47. ??? A re-download fixed it but changing zoom breaks the text flow still.

At first I didn't like it, but the more I read the more I loved it. I found it shocking and thought provoking. Good book!

Quite a good book apparently, but I could not read it entirely because some pages are cut off.

About the author

Jon Ronson is an award-winning writer and documentary maker. He is the author of many bestselling books, including Frank: The True Story that Inspired the Movie, Lost at Sea: The Jon Ronson Mysteries, The Psychopath Test, The Men Who Stare at Goats and Them: Adventures with Extremists. His first fictional screenplay, Frank, co-written with Peter Straughan, starred Michael Fassbender. He is the creator of podcasts including Things Fell Apart and The Butterfly Effect. He lives in London and New York City.