Shaming rituals in the age of global media

How DSK’s perp walk generated estrangement

Bibliographic Data

ID7500841
AuthorsSandrine Boudana (0000-0002-8968-2292, Tel Aviv University, corresponding author)
Year2013
Volume29
Issue1
Pages50-67
Publication date2013-11-21
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEuropean Journal of Communication (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0267-3231 • E-ISSN: 1460-3705
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0267323113509361
OpenAlexW2151916505
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited19

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

Criminology · Criticism · Media studies · Order (exchange · Political science · Politics · Presidential system · Sociology · Media Studies and Communication · Rhetoric and Communication Studies · Social Media and Politics · Gender Studies · Law