Digital Ethics delves into the shifting legal and ethical landscape in digital spaces and explores productive approaches for theorizing, understanding, and navigating through difficult ethical issues online. Contributions from leading scholars address how changing technologies and media over the last decade have both created new ethical quandaries and reinforced old ones in rhetoric and writing studies. Through discussions of rhetorical theory, case studies and examples, research methods and methodologies, and pedagogical approaches and practical applications, this collection will further digital rhetoric scholars’ inquiry into digital ethics and writing instructors’ approaches to teaching ethics in the current technological moment. A key contribution to the literature on ethical practices in digital spaces, this book will be of interest to researchers and teachers in the fields of digital rhetoric, composition, and writing studies.
Author(s): Jessica Reyman, Erika M. Sparby
Series: Routledge Studies In Rhetoric And Communication
Publisher: Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group
Year: 2020
Language: English
Pages: 283
Tags: Communication Studies, Communication Ethics, Rhetoric, Digital Ethics, Online Aggression
Cover......Page 1
Half Title......Page 2
Series Page......Page 3
Title Page......Page 4
Copyright Page......Page 5
Dedication......Page 6
Contents......Page 8
List of Figures......Page 12
Acknowledgments......Page 14
Foreword: Interacting with Friends, Enemies, and Strangers......Page 16
List of Contributors......Page 24
1 Introduction: Toward an Ethic of Responsibility in Digital Aggression......Page 30
PART I: Ethics of Interfaces and Platforms......Page 44
2 Hateware and the Outsourcing of Responsibility......Page 46
3 Values versus Rules in Social Media Communities: How Platforms Generate Amorality on reddit and Facebook......Page 62
4 Finding Effective Moderation Practices on Twitch......Page 80
5 A Pedagogy of Ethical Interface Production Based on Virtue Ethics......Page 98
PART II: Academic Labor in Digital Publics......Page 114
6 Feminist Research on the Toxic Web: The Ethics of Access, Affective Labor, and Harassment......Page 116
7 “Maybe She Can Be a Feminist and Still Claim Her Own Opinions?”: The Story of an Accidental Counter-Troll, A Treatise in 9 Movements......Page 133
8 Professorial Outrage: Enthymemic Assumptions......Page 152
PART III: Cultural Narratives in Hostile Discourses......Page 170
9 Hateful Games: Why White Supremacist Recruiters Target Gamers......Page 172
10 Theorycraft and Online Harassment: Mobilizing Status Quo Warriors......Page 189
11 Volatile Visibility: How Online Harassment Makes Women Disappear......Page 208
PART IV: Circulation and Amplification of Digital Aggression......Page 224
12 Confronting Digital Aggression with an Ethics of Circulation......Page 226
13 The Banality of Digital Aggression: Algorithmic Data Surveillance in Medical Wearables......Page 243
14 Fostering Phronesis in Digital Rhetorics: Developing a Rhetorical and Ethical Approach to Online Engagements......Page 260
Index......Page 278
