So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed

　　一開始是匿名靠北、PTT版「昨晚夢見」，或某個手機影片，再來就是肉搜，公審，宅鄉婉爭相按鍵譴責，然後大眾媒體跟進，將被告打趴在地。

　　本書挖出網路事件的全貌，指出被告縱使犯錯，頂多只是一時愚蠢，在國軍墓園拍不雅照之類的，受到的懲罰卻往往超過比例原則。這種群體洩憤到底代表哪一種心理需求？古有綁刑示眾，今有知名的「史丹福囚徒實驗」，好好大學生只要被指定獄卒角色，自會變為虐待狂。作者以各種角度書寫近年常見的網路揪鬥現象，是一本刺激思考的書。

　　From the New York Times bestselling author of The Psychopath Test, a 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.’

　　For the past three years, Jon Ronson has travelled the world meeting recipients of high-profile public shamings. The shamed are people like us – people who, say, made a joke on social media that came out badly, or made a mistake at work. Once their transgression is revealed, collective outrage circles with the force of a hurricane and the next thing they know they’re being torn apart by an angry mob, jeered at, demonized, sometimes even fired from their job.

　　A great renaissance of public shaming is sweeping our land. Justice has been democratized. The silent majority are getting a voice. But what are we doing with our voice? We are mercilessly finding people’s faults. We are 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.