{"id":5317,"date":"2022-04-10T08:36:36","date_gmt":"2022-04-10T06:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/10\/cathy-oneil-big-tech-makes-use-of-shame-to-profit-from-our-interactions\/"},"modified":"2022-04-10T08:36:36","modified_gmt":"2022-04-10T06:36:36","slug":"cathy-oneil-big-tech-makes-use-of-shame-to-profit-from-our-interactions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/10\/cathy-oneil-big-tech-makes-use-of-shame-to-profit-from-our-interactions\/","title":{"rendered":"Cathy O\u2019Neil: \u2018Big tech makes use of shame to profit from our interactions\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

The mathematician and author talks about the exploitation of our feelings, cancel culture, and why she believes JK Rowling is an example of \u2018punching-down shame\u2019<\/p>\n

Cathy O\u2019Neil is a writer, a mathematician and author of the bestselling Weapons of Math Destruction<\/a><\/em>, which won the Euler book prize. Her latest book is The Shame Machine: Who Profits in the New Age of Humiliation<\/a><\/em>, which looks at the ways shame is manufactured and exploited in a range of industries, including prisons, welfare systems and social media, for coercive and commercial purposes. She argues that a common intention is to shift responsibility for social problems from institutions to individuals.<\/p>\n

This is a very different book to your previous one. What made you decide to write about the subject of shame?
<\/strong>I first became really interested in shame while researching Weapons of <\/em>Math Destruction<\/em>. I talked to teachers who had been evaluated by a secret scoring system. And they were sometimes getting fired or denied tenure. When I asked if somebody had explained the formula to them, they said they were told it was math and they wouldn\u2019t understand. That silenced them. It was shame as a systematic mechanism.<\/p>\n

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\nThe mathematician and author talks about the exploitation of our feelings, cancel culture, and why she believes JK Rowling is an example of \u2018punching-down shame\u2019
\nCathy O\u2019Neil is a writer, a mathematician and author of the bestselling Weapons of Math Destruction, which won the Euler book prize. Her latest book is The Shame Machine: Who Profits in the New Age of Humiliation, which looks at the ways shame is manufactured and exploited in a range of industries, including prisons, welfare systems and social media, for coercive and commercial purposes. She argues that a common intention is to shift responsibility for social problems from institutions to individuals.
\nThis is a very different book to your previous one. What made you decide to write about the subject of shame?I first became really interested in shame while researching Weapons of Math Destruction. I talked to teachers who had been evaluated by a secret scoring system. And they were sometimes getting fired or denied tenure. When I asked if somebody had explained the formula to them, they said they were told it was math and they wouldn\u2019t understand. That silenced them. It was shame as a systematic mechanism. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The mathematician and author talks about the exploitation of our feelings, cancel culture, and why she believes JK Rowling is an example of \u2018punching-down shame\u2019 Cathy O\u2019Neil is a writer, a mathematician and author of the bestselling Weapons of Math Destruction, which won the Euler book prize. Her latest book is The Shame Machine: Who …<\/p>\n

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