Naming and Shaming in Cyberspace: Forms, Effects and Counterstrategies

Mayer, Claude–Hélène; Vanderheiden, Elisabeth

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-59527-2_18

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“…Appearance-shaming has been described as "the action of mocking or humiliating someone based on their physical appearance" (Gam et al, 2020(Gam et al, , p. 1324. Body-shaming and slutshaming are considered the most common sub-forms of appearance-shaming (Mayer & Vanderheiden, 2021). Publicly shaming one's appearance is common among adolescents and happens both offline at school (Ashurst & McAlinden, 2015;Gam et al, 2020;Lestari, 2019;Lickteig, 2021) and on social media (Lestari, 2019).…”

Section: Celebrity Bashing and Body-shamingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In contrast to comments about ordinary people, celebrity comments can continue to be trending on social media for months and are even picked up by news sources who keep them alive (Broersma & Graham, 2013;Felmlee et al, 2020). Several scholars have warned of how such popular comments might contribute to the maintenance of traditional sexual ideas about women and their appearance (Felmlee et al, 2018(Felmlee et al, , 2020Mayer & Vanderheiden, 2021).…”

Section: Celebrity Bashing and Body-shamingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Research has shown that people scoring high on sexual objectification of women show higher acceptance of rape myths and participate more often in negative behaviors toward women (Samji & Vasquez, 2020), such as public-shaming, sexual harassment, and aggression (Forbes et al, 2007;Franz et al, 2016;Gervais et al, 2014;Swami et al, 2010). By constantly stressing sexist ideas and attacking women who do not meet the standards, such comments become powerful messages (Bailey et al, 2013;Eagly et al, 2000) and contribute to the continuing acceptance of these norms (Eagly et al, 2000;Endendijk et al, 2017;Mayer & Vanderheiden, 2021).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Increasing the knowledge of celebrity appearance-shaming is necessary because constant exposure to criticism of the beauty and sexuality of celebrities might function as a highlighter for existing gender stereotypical norms and social expectations, especially for women (Felmlee et al, 2020;Galdi et al, 2014;Mayer & Vanderheiden, 2021). This information might, in turn, be used as a basis for people's own sexist values and behaviors toward famous and non-famous people, which might keep practices of appearance-shaming alive (Carrera-Fernandez et al, 2013;Mayer & Vanderheiden, 2021;Moya et al, 2006;Ramiro-Sánchez et al, 2018).…”

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Celebrity appearance-shaming: Innocent bashing forms or reconfirming gender norms? A study into the explanations of adolescents’ celebrity appearance-shaming intentions

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2023

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Celebrities regularly become victims of online body- and slut-shaming. This study refers to these practices as appearance-shaming and investigates potential explanations for adolescents’ intentions to participate in this behavior by means of an extended version of the theory of planned behavior (TPB). Apart from the three paths of attitudes toward the practice, subjective norms about the practice, and perceived behavioral control to participate in it, we added sexism as a potential variable to explain celebrity appearance-shaming. Through this addition, we were better able to capture the role of cultural background variables, something that was not included in the traditional elements of the TPB but appeared to be important for explaining normative behaviors. Based on a survey study of 248 adolescents (N = 248), we concluded that the TPB is a good theoretical framework for explaining intentions toward celebrity appearance-shaming. More specifically, having more accepting attitudes toward celebrity bashing, more supportive descriptive norms about celebrity bashing, and higher perceived behavioral control were associated with higher intentions. Moreover, sexism had a strong positive relationship with the intention to celebrity appearance-shaming. Participating in celebrity appearance-shaming might, in that way, be an indicator of strong traditional sexist beliefs and might contribute to keeping them alive among adolescents.

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“…Sociocentric and egocentric cultures supposedly have different emotional expressions and experiences of shame and guilt. Sociocentric cultures, which are more social-looking, tend to generate more of a sense of character-intrinsic general shame, while more individualistic egocentric cultures lead more to a sense of specific action-intrinsic guilt in the transgressor (Mayer and Vanderheiden, 2021). Shame and guilt are often considered synonymous with one another, but shame is identified as a self-related emotion that motivates one to hide and escape, whereas guilt is identified as the emotion that motivates one to repair (Bastin et al, 2016, Keng andTan, 2017).…”

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Co-evolution of Social and Non-Social Guilt

Cimpeanu¹,

Han²

2023

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Building ethical machines may involve bestowing upon them the emotional capacity to selfevaluate and repent on their actions. While reparative measures, such as apologies, are often considered as possible strategic interactions, the explicit evolution of the emotion of guilt as a behavioural phenotype is not yet well understood. Here, we study the co-evolution of social and non-social guilt of homogeneous or heterogeneous populations, including well-mixed, lattice and scale-free networks. Socially aware guilt comes at a cost, as it requires agents to make demanding efforts to observe and understand the internal state and behaviour of others, while non-social guilt only requires the awareness of the agents' own state and hence incurs no social cost. Those choosing to be non-social are however more sensitive to exploitation by other agents due to their social unawareness. Resorting to methods from evolutionary game theory, we study analytically, and through extensive numerical and agent-based simulations, whether and how such social and non-social guilt can evolve and deploy, depending on the underlying structure of the populations, or systems, of agents. The results show that, in both lattice and scale-free networks, emotional guilt prone strategies are dominant for a larger range of the guilt and social costs incurred, compared to the well-mixed population setting, leading therefore to significantly higher levels of cooperation for a wider range of the costs. In structured population settings, both social and non-social guilt can evolve and deploy through clustering with emotional prone strategies, allowing them to be protected from exploiters, especially in case of non-social (less costly) strategies. Overall, our findings provide important insights into the design and engineering of self-organised and distributed cooperative multi-agent systems.

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Age-related changes in the prevalence of negative responses to the online body shaming among teenagers aged 11-17

Kvintova,

Novotny,

Vachova

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The increased time spent online and the growth of social networking among teenagers are associated with a heightened risk of online body shaming, eliciting diverse negative responses. Understanding how these responses vary with age remains an area requiring further exploration. This research investigates age-related variations in the prevalence of reactions to online body shaming among teenagers aged 11–17. Findings indicate distinct trends in the prevalence of responses across different age groups, with early teenagers (11–13 years) commonly experiencing somatic difficulties, intense negative emotions, and a propensity to withdraw from social interactions. Conversely, an escalation in drug use, diminished trust, and a rise in negative thoughts and uncontrollable emotions are noted among middle to late teenagers (14–17 years). Additionally, the occurrence of negative responses is markedly higher in girls than in boys. These insights underscore the importance of tailoring prevention programs and interventions to address the specific needs and experiences of teenagers at various stages of adolescence. The study provides significant implications for future research and practitioners working with youth to mitigate the adverse effects of online body shaming.

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Naming and Shaming in Cyberspace: Forms, Effects and Counterstrategies

Cited by 4 publications

References 39 publications

Celebrity appearance-shaming: Innocent bashing forms or reconfirming gender norms? A study into the explanations of adolescents’ celebrity appearance-shaming intentions

Celebrity appearance-shaming: Innocent bashing forms or reconfirming gender norms? A study into the explanations of adolescents’ celebrity appearance-shaming intentions

Co-evolution of Social and Non-Social Guilt

Age-related changes in the prevalence of negative responses to the online body shaming among teenagers aged 11-17

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