Shaming rituals in the age of global media

How DSK’s perp walk generated estrangement

Datos Bibliográficos

ID7500841
AutoresSandrine Boudana (0000-0002-8968-2292, Tel Aviv University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2013
Volumen29
Número1
Páginas50-67
Fecha de publicación2013-11-21
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEuropean Journal of Communication (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0267-3231 • E-ISSN: 1460-3705
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0267323113509361
OpenAlexW2151916505
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas7
Referencias citadas19

In May 2011, IMF chief and French presidential contender Dominique Strauss-Kahn was arrested on sexual assault charges and forced to do the ‘perp walk’ in New York. The French press vividly criticized this shaming ritual, thus triggering reactions of defense, but also of self-questioning, in the American press. This study evaluates the extent to which the French criticism led the American press to show distance from the norms of its own national community. It contends that, in our age of globalized information, shaming rituals, which served to legitimate the dominant order, can now generate what Shani Orgad called ‘estrangement

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