Social Media, Social Control, and the Politics of Public Shaming
Political Science Now
APRIL 18, 2025
Social Media, Social Control, and the Politics of Public Shaming By Jennifer Forestal , Loyola University Chicago. While there is disagreement over the value of public shaming, scholars largely agree that social media introduce pathologies. But while scholars rightly identify the effects of online public shaming (OPS), they misidentify the cause. Rather than solely a problem of scale, OPSs effects are also shaped by the network structure within which they take place.
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