Internet Shaming
Remember Monica Lewinsky? Long, long ago, she was the White House intern who almost brought down Bill Clinton. A while back, she gave a TED talk titled The Price of Shame . Her “crime”? At age 22, she fell in love with the President of the US. As a result, she got sucked into “the eye of a political, legal and media maelstrom like we had never seen before”. Really, you wonder? Haven't there been so many other stories/scandals? Lewinsky explains what was different, but first remember this happened in 1998: “Remember, just a few years earlier, news was consumed from just three places: reading a newspaper or magazine, listening to the radio, or watching television. That was it. But that wasn't my fate. Instead, this scandal was brought to you by the digital revolution. That meant we could access all the information we wanted, when we wanted it, anytime, anywhere, and when the story broke in January 1998, it broke online. It was the first time the traditional news was usurp...