So You've Been Publicly Shamed is a 2015 book by British journalist Jon Ronson about online shaming and its historical antecedents. The book explores the re-emergence of public shaming as an Internet phenomenon, particularly on Twitter. As a state-sanctioned punishment, public shaming was popular in Colonial America. Between 1837 in the UK and 1839 in the US, it was phased out as a punishment, not due to the increasingly populous society, as was widely held, but instead in response to rising calls for compassion.In gathering material for his book, Ronson interviewed several individuals who had received a concentrated Internet shaming, including Jonah Lehrer. He also interviewed practitioners of 21st century public humiliation, including the former Texas District Judge and former congressional representative Ted Poe, and several instigators of widespread public shamings. Source: Wikipedia (en)