The use of social media for shaming strangers: young people's views

Amy De Vries

doi:10.1109/HICSS.2015.245

The use of social media for shaming strangers: young people's views

Amy De Vries

Department of Computer Science

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Abstract

Recent years have seen an increase in a practice known as online public shaming. Online public shaming is when social media, and related technologies, is used as a platform for 'shaming' individuals for perceived violations in social norms and etiquette. This qualitative study explored young people's views on the occurrence and acceptability of this practice, including how it varies from related phenomenon such as cyber-bullying. The findings indicate that young people consider there to be a number of benefits to public shaming e.g. Deterring similar behaviours, and these also make it distinct from bullying. The discussions raised a number of related issues surrounding privacy, surveillance and managing online 'presence', which highlighted several implications for practice and requirements for future research.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 48th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), 2015
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	2053-2062
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Print)	9781479973675
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.2015.245
Publication status	Published - 26 Mar 2015
Event	48th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2015 - Kauai, USA United States Duration: 5 Jan 2015 → 8 Jan 2015

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Conference	48th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2015
Country/Territory	USA United States
City	Kauai
Period	5/01/15 → 8/01/15

Keywords

Cyber-shaming
Privacy
Shaming
Social media
Surveillance
Young people

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