TY - JOUR
T1 - Shaming rituals in the age of global media
T2 - How DSK's perp walk generated estrangement
AU - Boudana, Sandrine
PY - 2014/2
Y1 - 2014/2
N2 - 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'.
AB - 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'.
KW - American press
KW - French press
KW - global communication
KW - perpetrator walk
KW - shaming ritual
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84892474692&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/0267323113509361
DO - 10.1177/0267323113509361
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AN - SCOPUS:84892474692
SN - 0267-3231
VL - 29
SP - 50
EP - 67
JO - European Journal of Communication
JF - European Journal of Communication
IS - 1
ER -
