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Internet outrage over toucan abuse promotes anti-abuse law
Costa Ricans were outraged that a group of children attacked a toucan, breaking off its beak. They launched a #savethetoucan hashtag and raised funds to create a 3D printed prosthet...
Great NYT Magazine piece on Twitter outrage + graph
This is an excerpt from Jon Ronson's book "So You've Been Publicly Shamed." It discusses the case of Justine Sacco who was professionally and personally ruined when one of her tweets caused an enor...
Preliminary results
This graph shows some of our preliminary experiments. Each red dot is one "miniature society" that has social media. The height of the dot shows "Net Punishment", which is how much the people in th...
Media coverage on outrage
Here are a few recent articles that discuss social media and outrage.Twitter Is BrokenIt stresses conflict over consensus. It rewards trolling instead of reasoned debate. And GamerGate proves it.By...
Examples of social media outrage
A few examples and consequences: Mozilla CEO Brandon Eich: The tech CEO was forced to resign after social media was used to criticize Eich's donations to a political campaign opposing gay marriage...