Digital Lynch Mobs examines how social media environments produce rapid judgment, reputational harm, and collective punishment long before facts are established. Drawing on forensic analysis, trauma-informed insight, and legal study, Dr. Mozelle Martin looks at the mechanisms that turn online platforms into systems of accusation, amplification, and public destruction.
The book explains how outrage is rewarded, how platforms benefit from escalation, and how media narratives, algorithmic exposure, and crowd behavior can converge against a single target. Rather than treating online pile-ons as isolated episodes, it examines them as a repeatable social process with real psychological, reputational, and civic consequences.
For readers trying to understand online shaming, viral accusations, cancel-driven exposure, reputational harm, and the erosion of due process in digital culture, Digital Lynch Mobs offers a clear account of how these systems operate and why they persist.
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