News in Review Cyber-Shaming: Retribution in a Virtual World
News in Review Cyber-Shaming: Retribution in a Virtual World
In the age of social media, public shaming is making a comeback. Hundreds of years ago, townsfolk would put members of their society who violated the law or moral code into public stocks or pillories to humiliate them. Today, society attacks online, in virtual anonymity, with little fear of recrimination. And there is little the victims can do about it. The CBC's Neil Macdonald looks at the return of public shaming in a virtual world.
- 2015
- 00:16:52
- 13-14
- Added on: 09/18/2015
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- Edition
- September 2015
- Subjects
- Privacy, Right of [LCSH] Libel and slander [LCSH] Online social networks -- Psychological aspects [LCSH] Technology [LCSH] Psychology [LCSH]
- Team
- Michael Serapio (Host), Neil MacDonald (Journalist)
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