So You've Been Publicly Shamed

A wonderfully written book about this recent, horrifying social phenomenon of Twitter pile-ons of moral outrage and indignation, often carried out in the name of some noble cause like stamping out racism or sexism. But mostly it's just people being awful to people they don't know, and feeling very good about it. Remember Justine Sacco?

Anyway, Jon Ronson is a wonderful writer. He manages to be very funny and very informed, while giving quite a layered look at all sides of a very complex social phenomenon.

Makes you want to abandon social media. Makes you think twice about reviewing books on Goodreads, even!