Monday, October 5, 2015

  The title of Chapter 6 in Jon Ronson's book "So You've Been Publicly Shamed" is called "Doing Somthing Good". The basis of this chapter stems from the actions of three different people. This chapter begins with Hank and his friend at a conference for technology developers. Adria Richards overheard a disturbing joke being told by Hank during the conference. Although it didn't have to do with her, she still found it offensive and inappropriate. Her only way to reveal this was to snap a picture of the two of them and release it on her twitter page. As a result, Hank was fired from his job. For being publicly shamed, he immediately writes an apology and also shares his life story to receive some remorse. Surprisingly, Adria is the one being targeted for releasing this publicly and she is fired in the end with the help of the group 4chan. Following, a member of 4chan named Mercedes Haefer gets in contact with Jon Ronson to go over the situation that occurred. Mercedes began to talk about how Adria was exposed and is receiving major consequences. In the end of the day, Adria is left unemployed when Hank is immediately offered a job. Going back to the ironic title, "Doing Something Good," these people believe they are doing the right and moral thing by exposing each other and making them pay for their actions, but really they are just digging more problems.

            In Chapter 6, I found it extremely strange how Adria slyly and shadily took that picture. Even if she took the picture, why did she feel the need to expose it? What did she think was going to happen and how did she not see that what she was doing was bad? Also, Chapter 5 was revolved around why people get so worked up and paranoid in crowds. I was very confused on how the Stanford Prison Experiment was relevant to this research of the crowds. I did not make a clear connection between the two whether it was a major point that I missed or not.

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