We are pleased to invite you to the launch of a new book by Daniel Trottier, Qian Huang, and Rashid Gabdulhakov, exploring the rise of digital media denunciation and its social impacts. This book provides a comprehensive framework for understanding online shaming practices, shedding light on the moral complexities, societal divides, and potential harms associated with digital denunciations. As online platforms become spaces for public accountability—whether through movements like #MeToo or #BlackLivesMatter—this study examines practices such as ‘cancel culture’, ‘doxing’, and ‘status degradation ceremonies’ through both local and global lenses.
- Date
- Friday 15 Nov 2024, 15:00 - 16:00
- Type
- Presentation
- Spoken Language
- English
- Room
- T3-13
- Building
- Mandeville Building
- Location
- Campus Woudestein
- Ticket information
Please email trottier@eshcc.eur.nl to register
Also available online via Zoom (register for the link)
Building on recent scholarship on shaming, surveillance and denunciation in fixed contexts, this study generates a cross-contextual and multi-actor account of practices like ‘cancel culture’, ‘doxing’ and ‘status degradation ceremonies’. It addresses instances of moral ambivalence by discussing how digital shaming becomes normalised and embedded across socio-cultural and institutional settings. The authors establish key actors and practices in online denunciations of individuals in a range of cases and contexts, including responses to COVID-19, political polarisation, and social justice movements, as well as more local and quotidian circumstances. They draw from empirical data including interviews with nearly 100 individuals targeted by mediated shaming and/or involved in these practices, as well as ethnographic observations of digital vigilantism and discourse analysis of press coverage and online comments relating to online shaming. Diverse applications and contexts, including China, the UK, Russia, and Central Asia, are considered, advancing an ambivalent understanding of media and denunciation that reconciles progressive and regressive practices, as well as celebratory and critical accounts of these practices.
Daniel Trottier is an associate professor at the Department of Media and Communication of Erasmus University Rotterdam. Qian Huang is an assistant professor at the Centre for Media and Journalism Studies at University of Groningen. Rashid Gabdulhakov is an assistant professor at the Research Centre for Media and Journalism Studies at the University of Groningen. Both Qian and Rashid received their PhDs at the Department of Media and Communication of Erasmus University Rotterdam.
