Interrelativity

Category: Cybershaming

  • The Dark Side of Digital Backchannels in Shared Physical Spaces

    Recently, I've been disturbed to read about some significant frontchannel disturbances arising through the use of Twitter backchannels to heckle speakers at conferences. Having finished off my last blog with an example of the beneficial ways that Twitter helps us connect with consequential strangers, I want to revisit some issues that initially arose [for me]…

  • Spampliments, Spampliments, Spampliments, Spampliments …

    A reader using the name "Cara Fletcher" posted the following comment on the first blog entry I posted about my wife’s anal cancer (Anal Cancer: A Real Pain in the Butt): The anal cancer should be really a pain in the butt and I am sure it’s not very pleasant.I now have to deal with…

  • Cyberbullying: Prevalence, Preventability and Politics

    Perhaps due, in part, to things I’ve read, thought and blogged about recently regarding cybershaming and accountability, and the fearful overreactions of parents and other authorities over teens’ use of MySpace, I had a more skeptical reaction to a Wall Street Journal article this week on "Schools Act to Short-Circuit Spread of ‘Cyberbullying’" than the…

  • Citizen Accountability Projects

    Last Friday’s Wall Street Journal Weekend Edition included an article by Jennifer Saranow entitled "The Snoop Next Door" that contains a roundup of a number of web sites dedicated to documenting deviancy from social norms, large and small. The title and photos led me to prepare for an alarming expose on the abuses of using…

  • More Cybershaming via Cameraphone on a Train

    Another recent incident of cybershaming, involving a subway passenger in New York who used a cameraphone to create and share a photographic record of shameful behavior, was reported in the New York Daily News yesterday.  On August 18, Thao Nguyen was on her way back from an interview when a man sitting across from her…

  • Cybershaming and cybercompassion

    Don Park reports on a woman whose dog defecated on a train in Korea and refused to clean up the mess.  It began in a subway train with a girl whose dog made a mess on the train floor. When nearby elders told her to clean up the mess, she basically told them to f[***]…