Digital Exploitation

Social media promised connection. What it delivered was exposure without protection.
In today's digital landscape, trauma has become content, pain has become currency, and human lives are treated as commodities in the race for views, engagement, and profit. What once felt like connection now often functions as exploitation, where suffering is broadcast, monetized, and consumed while accountability quietly disappears.
In Digital Exploitation: Exposure Without Protection, Keyuni Jackson delivers an unflinching examination of how social media platforms reward harm, incentivize cruelty, and normalize the public consumption of trauma. This book explores how visibility becomes labor, how attention becomes currency, and how real people pay the price for viral moments that move on without consequence.
Centering the Black community while addressing broader digital culture, this work moves beyond individual incidents to expose the systems that make exploitation profitable and repeatable. It interrogates the role of algorithms, audience participation, monetization through gifts and donations, and the psychological toll of constant exposure in online spaces designed to extract rather than protect.
This is not a book about cancel culture or isolated online drama. It is a cultural reckoning with how trauma is bought, sold, and consumed in the attention economy, and how communities are fractured when suffering becomes entertainment.
Written with urgency, clarity, and care, Digital Exploitation: Exposure Without Protection challenges readers to reconsider how they engage online, what they support, and who benefits when pain goes viral.
Because connection should never come at the expense of humanity.