36.2452, Confs: Panel at the 4th International Conference on Discourse Pragmatics: The Pragmatics of Online Public Shaming

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Date: 19-Aug-2025
From: Michael Haugh [michael.haugh at uq.edu.au]
Subject: Panel at the 4th International Conference on Discourse Pragmatics: The Pragmatics of Online Public Shaming


Panel at the 4th International Conference on Discourse Pragmatics: The
Pragmatics of Online Public Shaming
Short Title: ICDP-4

Date: 17-Oct-2025 - 19-Oct-2025
Location: Online
Meeting URL: http://ywxy.zisu.edu.cn/info/1055/6835.htm

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Cognitive Science; Discourse
Analysis; Philosophy of Language; Pragmatics

Submission Deadline: 12-Sep-2025

Panel on “The Pragmatics of Online Public Shaming”
4th International Conference on Discourse Pragmatics (ICDP-4)
17-19 October 2025
Pilar Blitvich Garces-Conejos (University of North Carolina at
Charlotte)
Michael Haugh (University of Queensland)
Public shaming and public denunciation rituals have a long history in
maintaining moral order in many societies around the world (Garfinkel
1956; Braithwate 1989). However, following widespread uptake of social
media platforms and the ready accessibility of portable recording
devices, incidents of online public shaming have increasingly become a
site for ideological contestation of (alleged) incidents of morally
deviant or transgressive behaviour (Cheong and Gong 2010; Nelson
2018). Incidents of online public shaming commonly start when conduct
in face-to-face or mediated settings that is perceived as
transgressive is recorded by either one of the parties to that
interaction or a third party observer, and then posted to an online
platform, followed by viral amplification of that post through sharing
by others within and across social media platforms. Much of the focus
in research on online public shaming of individuals to date has
examined the ways in which the moral transgression(s) of the target
are exposed online and become the focus of online “pile-ons”
Garcés-Conejos Blitvich 2021, 2022a, b, 2024a; Haugh 2022. 2024), or
on the role of celebrity and the inter-relationship of online public
shaming with cancel culture (Garcés-Conejos Blitvich 2022b, 2024b).
However, there still remain a number of gaps in our understanding of
the pragmatics of online public shaming.
The aim of this panel is to bring together scholars who are examining
different facets of online public shaming across different linguistic
and cultural contexts. Papers in this panel will examine a number of
key questions including:
 - the relationship between online public shaming, public denunciation
and cancel culture
 - the extent to which the moral culpability of not only the target of
online public shaming, but also other persons involved in the incident
in question, may be contested by online commentators
 - the role of different identities and ideologies in fuelling
incidents of online public shaming,
 - the ways in which the trajectory of incidents of online public
shaming are shaped across different language and cultural settings,
and
 - the extent to which targets of online public shaming can be
rehabilitated or even forgiven for their alleged transgressions.
Selected papers will be published in a forthcoming special issue of
Internet Pragmatics (John Benjamins).
To submit an abstract, please send a document of no more than 300
words (including keywords and references) to michael.haugh at uq.edu.au.
The deadline for submission is 12 September 2025. Contributors will be
notified within one week whether their abstract has been accepted for
the panel.



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