For several years John Ronson studied the phenomenon of «public shaming» by meeting its victims—those who got dragged into a scandal big time. One single wrongdoing—and a wave of public rage rolled in like a powerful tsunami, sweeping everything away. What is it: a new kind of justice or an abuse of power? «So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed» is Ronson’s investigation: simultaneously unsettling and unbelievably funny—how people, hiding behind the restoration of justice, sometimes literally destroy other people’s lives.