In a recent article for Buzzfeed, Anne Helen Petersen notes the rise in social-media shaming of perceived social-distancing violations. She interprets people’s chastising posts as “misguided manifestations of fear and confusion in the face of a very real vacuum of authority.” To restore a sense of order, she suggests, we seize the available means of communication to put others in their place.
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In a recent article for Buzzfeed, Anne Helen Petersen notes the rise in social-media shaming of perceived social-distancing violations. She interprets people’s chastising posts as “misguided manifestations of fear and confusion in the face of a very real vacuum of authority.” To restore a sense of order, she suggests, we seize the available means of communication to put others in their place.