After becoming the focus of the history-changing federal investigation into her private life, Monica Lewinsky found herself, at 24 years old, one of the first targets of a “culture of humiliation”: a now-familiar cycle of media, political and personal harassment – particularly online. ...
Fast forward 12 years to 2010, and now social media has been born. The landscape has sadly become much more populated with instances like mine, whether or not someone actually make a mistake, and now it's for both public and private people. The consequences for some have become dire, very...
TED演讲者:Monica Lewinsky | 莫尼卡.莱温斯基 演讲标题:The price of shame | 羞辱的代价 内容概要:Public shaming as a blood sport has to stop says Monica Lewinsky. In 1998 she says “I was Patient Zero of losing a personal reputation on a global scale almost instantaneously.” Today the kind ...
(Read Britannica’s biography of Monica Lewinsky.) If we could travel back in time and query people of that previous age to imagine what it would be like to have the communication system we now enjoy at our fingertips—like a global connective tissue—my hunch is, the response to this ide...
Monica Lewinsky is one of very few people over the age of 40 who has no interest in being 22 again. “At the age of 22, I fell in love with my boss,” she says bluntly as she begins her talk on the TED2015 stage, her hands clasped in front of her. “At the age of 24, I...
Monica Lewinsky shares her views on what she calls our “culture of humiliation.” She calls for members of our digital society to take a stand against cyberbullying and online harassment by serving as upstanders. She reveals her own struggles with being publicly humiliated online and how she wa...
"Public shaming as a blood sport has to stop," says Monica Lewinsky. In 1998, she says, “I was Patient Zero of losing a personal reputation on a global scale almost instantaneously.” Today, the kind of online public shaming she went through has become constant -- and can turn deadly....
Following Beyoncé's decision to change an ableist lyric in "Heated," Monica Lewinsky asks her to revisit "Partition," which explicitly references the Clinton–Lewinsky scandal
Monica Lewinsky has some words for Beyoncé following a not-so-flattering lyrical reference to her. On one of the standout tracks from Beyoncé’s self-titled 2013 surprise album, Bey rap-sings: “Now my mascara running, red lipstick smudged ...
Presents three ways that Monica Lewinsky could redo her image to get past the scandal regarding her affair with United States President Bill Clinton. Marrying well; Disappearing for awhile; Searching for long run fame.WallisDavidHeardAlexNew York Times Magazine...