[Commlist] Open Access Book on Doxing, Cancel Culture and Online Shaming

Digital Media, Denunciation and Shaming: The Court of Public Opinion 
(Routledge, 2024)
By Daniel Trottier, Qian Huang and Rashid Gabdulhakov 
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003453017

This book offers a common set of concepts to help make sense of online 
shaming practices, accounting for instances of discrimination and injury 
that morally divide readers and at times risk unjust and 
disproportionate harm to those under scrutiny.

Digital media denunciation has become a primary form of expression and 
entertainment across media environments, with new socially desirable 
forms of accountability under movements such as #MeToo and 
#BlackLivesMatter addressing longstanding forms of systematic and 
interpersonal abuse. 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.

This book is recommended reading for advanced students and researchers 
of online visibility and harm across media studies, cultural studies and 
sociology.

With thanks to the Dutch Research Council (NWO) for their support in 
making this title open access.

Download for free here: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003453017

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