So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed

by

Jon Ronson

Luke Robert Mason Character Analysis

Luke Robert Mason is a researcher at Warwick University who created a spambot (or infomorph) using Jon Ronson’s tweets. Ronson felt humiliated by the bot’s presence, afraid that people would think he himself was behind it, so he demanded that Mason take the bot down in a private meeting. But when Mason refused, Ronson published a YouTube video of their encounter and rejoiced as the internet began to tear Mason and his fellow researchers who’d created the spambot apart. Eventually, Mason was “shamed into acquiescence” and took the bot down.

Luke Robert Mason Quotes in So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed

The So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed quotes below are all either spoken by Luke Robert Mason or refer to Luke Robert Mason. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 1 Quotes

I won. Within days, the academics took down @Jon_Ronson. They had been shamed into acquiescence. Their public shaming had been like the button that restores factory settings. Something was out of kilter. The community rallied. The balance was redressed.

Related Characters: Jon Ronson (speaker), Luke Robert Mason
Related Symbols: Twitter
Page Number: 8
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Luke Robert Mason Quotes in So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed

The So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed quotes below are all either spoken by Luke Robert Mason or refer to Luke Robert Mason. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
Good, Evil, and Inhumanity Theme Icon
).
Chapter 1 Quotes

I won. Within days, the academics took down @Jon_Ronson. They had been shamed into acquiescence. Their public shaming had been like the button that restores factory settings. Something was out of kilter. The community rallied. The balance was redressed.

Related Characters: Jon Ronson (speaker), Luke Robert Mason
Related Symbols: Twitter
Page Number: 8
Explanation and Analysis: