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The Anatomy of Outrage on Social Media

Given how much we outrage on social media on a range of issues, it may be worthwhile to step back to check on the anatomy of what we call outrage:) It is very likely that we are using the chapeau term ‘outrage’ for the three methods we typically deploy to express our disagreement with an event, a policy decision, an ideology or even a trend: 1)     Outrage 2)     Lynching 3)     Angry lament And then there is debate, of course, to the extent that is possible on social media  What sets outrage apart from the others is that it quickly moves ahead of the right vs wrong paradigm to suggestions, solutions and alternatives. Therefore outrage on social media has shown its rare power to galvanise emotion and action, to give everyone with internet the option to rally behind solutions of their choice, new pathways of their imagination.  It is for this reason that we need to allow outrage on social me...