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Question: Consider the case of Adria Richards, a tech blogger from California, who has personal experience in how quickly people can suffer the consequences of public shaming. She was attending a computer programming conference and, while sitting in a session, overheard two men making sexual jokes. Reacting to the comments, she turned around, snapped a picture of the two men, and tweeted the photo with a shaming comment. As a result, one of the two men was fired from his job at a gaming company. Ironically, Adria was also fired from her job because public shaming was not considered by her employer to be an appropriate way to handle misconduct by others.
Online shaming is the topic of your Discussion this week. You will examine the effects of the act and how a forensic psychology professional can assist victims and help educate the public. You will also identify the characteristics that could make online shaming a criminal act while considering whether you think all forms of online shaming will eventually be made illegal.
Describe the situation and the responses or actions that followed the incident of cyber shaming you selected. Then, choose three of the following bullets to address.
Explain how the public venue influenced the spread of information or intensification of the situation.
Identify the characteristics of the act that would make it a crime.
Generate a hypothesis about whether cyber shaming may become a crime in the future. Justify your response.
Explain how a forensic psychology professional might help victims of cyber shaming.
Explain how you would educate the population on the effects of participating in cyber shaming.