Cancelling

Provenance · 3 source record(s)

• retrievableThe etymological source, and the argument that the term is contested rather than descriptive: 'callout culture' functions in much the same way as harassment to punish individuals for moral transgressions - though the authors note this is sometimes a more sympathetic proposition, and participants believed harassing neo-Nazis and racists was justifiedClark, M. (2020). DRAG THEM: A brief etymology of so-called 'cancel culture'. Communication and the Public, 5(3-4), 88-92. ↗
• retrievableThe reputational mechanics of signing: across four studies, n=10,343, people signed punitive petitions far more when the decision was observable by like-minded evaluators - 30% versus 19% unobserved. Being watched is what converts an individual judgement into a pile-onKteily, N., & Jordan, J. How reputation does (and does not) drive people to punish without looking. ↗
• unverifiedAnd the design proposal, which is the constructive version of the whole argument: make the deliberation visible. A tested Twitter prompt asks 'Hey, did you read the article? Do you still want to post it?' The authors suggest requiring reasons - 'if I struggle to come up with reasons for the other side, then that's a signal I haven't really engaged with the other side at all'Kteily & Jordan, reporting on their research, Northwestern Kellogg Insight.