The Dark Side Of Web Fame

Public humiliation has changed immensely weighing heavily on the creation of the internet introducing the idea of online cyberbullying as opposed to scaffolding in a town square. As modern society revels in putting people on a public pedestal, the scaffold that Hester Prynne is put onto marks her as no longer a person with feelings, just as a negative figure people look upon to make themselves feel higher. After the news broke of Monica Lewinsky’s scandal, people no longer recognized her as a young adult who makes mistakes, but was treated like a person with no emotions and incapable of being affected by her mistakes. As the story went on throughout the internet, she was only represented as a person through the mistake she made just as Hester Prynne was recognized for the crime she committed. Publicly shaming Hester Prynne and Monica Lewinsky is and was a way for people to make themselves feel better and place themselves higher in society.

The Flip Side of Internet Fame by Jessica Bennett. I believe her argument is how things posted on the internet is big, like once someone post something on their it’s going to be on the internet forever. I agree with her because once you posted something on the internet it’s forever going up there even if you deleted the post or the picture. I am going to write about the first person that Jessica Bennett talks to about the “Star Wars Kid”, bullying, and the cyber world.

There are few places on this Earth, if any, where the possibilities are truly endless. However, if you detach yourself from the physical world and emerge into the “online” world, you find that this just might actually be accurate in this realm. The World Wide Web has had so much to offer to us since the early 1990s, but with this comes controversy. Unleashed onto a plane of seemingly immeasurable freedom of anonymity, was the world ready for such responsibility? Since those early days when new emerging technology changed our lives immensely, have we at all become a better place, or have we bitten off more than we can chew, and doomed our human relations forever? Exploring these concepts are three in-depth articles, including: “Growing Up Tethered” by Sherry Turkle, “The Loneliness of the Interconnected” by Charles Seife, and “Cybersexism” by Laurie Penny. Although it is thought that the Internet brings the world together, it actually does not help us politically, culturally, and economically like one would believe, as it makes us unable to be independent, isolates us from different points of view, and encourages real-world violence against women and other minority groups.

Social media has become one of the main methods for public shaming. Many activists have used it as a way of getting attention with the media, but others have used it as a form of entertainment to watch people’s lives get burned to the ground. Though public shaming can be very entertaining it can also be hurtful and can even cause people to lose their jobs along with their self respect. The article How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco’s Life, written by Jon Ronson, describes how the punishment for using social media inappropriately can be detrimental to your future

The book, “So You've Been Publicly Shamed” written by Jon Ronson, commences by disclosing his own experience with identity theft on social media. His story involves three educated men, who have taken over his identity by creating a twitter account. The men are careless and unashamed of their actions. Therefore, Ronson decides to meet with the three gentlemen to discuss shutting down the account. As they talked, Ronson is simultaneously recording them and realizes that the men lack empathy for his concerns and Ron’s portrayal on social media. Moreover, Ronson decides to post the video on Youtube, and later receives an abundant of supporting comments on the incident. Eventually, the account is shutdown and proves how publicly shaming someone

Author Jessica Bennett talked about technology in her article ¨The flip Side of Internet Fame¨.

The emergence of the Internet in the 21st century has dramatically changed how we communicate. It has opened a new avenue for facilitating human interaction. Information that would otherwise take hours or even days to be made public, now take seconds with a click of a button. Is this good or bad? What are the consequences of rapid-fire quick communication style that we have adopted? In articles “How Black Lives Matter Uses Social Media to Fight The Power,” and “The Attorney Fighting Revenge Porn,” authors Bijan Stephen and Margaret Talbot, discuss the pros and cons. Stephen discusses new mass mobilization structures social media has provided for social activists, while Talbot reflects on a new type of sexual harassment as a consequence of the

The streisand effect is an internet phenomenon in which attempting to suppress or cover up information online causes the spread of said information to increase at a faster rate. This term was coined in 2003, when singer Barbra Streisand sued a photography website for including pictures of her cliffside mansion on their website. By raising a fuss, she drew attention to the matter, which only caused more people to hear about it. The information Streisand tried to suppress exploded across the internet, completely undermining her efforts and only magnifying the situation(T.C.). The streisand effect is now a common occurrence on the internet, and deleting negative or unwanted information usually leads to more issues. This is because the information can saved elsewhere before it is deleted, and can be re-posted by others. Deleting a post can also be seen as confirmation or an admission of guilt, which can lead to more trouble. This is a case in which a person can either deal with the problem at hand, or risk aggravating it, which in turn exemplifies that unintended consequences are sometimes

Spreading hate has been a thing ever since humans exist, same with online hate and the internet. We live with the misconception that just because no one can see our face we can do what we want. We firmly seem to believe that we are anonymous on the internet, but that’s not the case.

For example, the whole story is about how dangerous the internet is that it ruined his career. Kyle had to live a life in caution after he threatened with the video, it’s unimaginable that humanity has to fear the internet and how far the internet has developed to be able to be taken advantage of. This relates to me since being a young adolescent, we teens tend to be reckless, including myself when it comes to the internet, especially with social media. I realised to be careful when posting online for the whole world to see, otherwise I could result with the same situation. Recently, there was a situation in the United States regarding a popular TV host fired for sexual misconduct charges.

The Flip Side of Internet Fame adds that others whom blog and have social networking sites are at serious risk as of the amount of bullying, harassment, and public shaming. Both of those joint, could cause someone to feel alone, which could lead to depression, anxiety or even suicide. It is very discomforting to hear, but it is correct. In addition, when one does report the cyber bullying to authorizes, the IP addresses are not always traceable when it comes to finding out where a message comes from. Especially, if it is occurring during school because there are so many students in the

The internet has put the world literally at anyone’s fingertips with a vast quantity of information is a mouse-click away. Young adults use the internet to spread rumors of the person they threaten because they envy their existence. The quote "stick and stones can break my bones, but words can never hurt me" means that peoples judgments shouldn 't hurt. However, deep down, we don 't want to face reality once someone spreads a lie through the internet. For example, a girl name Emma is a smart High School student who get along with anyone but there

In today’s internet savvy world, ‘Shaming’ has become an aspect of core-competency. And this aspect holds the power to destroy lives and confidences. This issue has become so large in the past few years that an entire book (“So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed”) has been written focusing on this very topic. But who is responsible for this chaos? Is it the person engaging in bad behavior or the person pulling the curtain off of the act? The answer depends on whom you ask. Social media when used properly has proved to be a powerful tool against the powerful organizations and influential people. Giving voice to pain of millions.

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“If you’re not online, you’re off the radar” goes the advertisement from a local newspaper. The statement underlines the importance of having social presence in the World Wide Web. In this Social Network Era, businesses just like individual customers also have presence on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, and YouTube. The arrival of Web 2.0 allowed users to network and collaborate with one another using social media sites. Just like ordinary people connecting and sharing their opinions, thoughts, perceptions and pictures with friends and the greater online community, businesses also use social networking sites to reach out to its target customers. Customers on the other hand use social media to post either their approval or dismay over products and services. In certain situations, things can go “viral” very quickly as millions of people share one customer’s pleasant or unpleasant experience over the internet. Customers that share information over the internet pour out their emotions which in turn arouse either positive or negative emotions from their friends and followers and the public in general. As the level of emotional stimulation arises, so does the level of virality of an online content (Berger & Milkman, 2011). From a business standpoint, a consumer buzz over the internet can potentially make a lot of money and create opportunities for the business or can easily become a public relations