Digital Ethics: Rhetoric and Responsibility in Online Aggression

ISBN-13: 9781032177571 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 284 str.

Jessica Reyman; Erika Sparby

Opis

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. This book will be of interest to researchers and teachers in the fields of digital rhetoric, composition, and writing studies.

Spis treści

Foreword: Friends, Enemies, and Strangers Online  1. Introduction: Toward an Ethic of Responsibility in Digital Aggression  Part I: Ethics of Interfaces and Platforms  2. Hateware and the Outsourcing of Responsibility  3. Values vs. Rules in Social Media Communities: How Platforms Generate Amorality on reddit and Facebook  4. Finding Effective Moderation Practices on Twitch  5. A Pedagogy of Ethical Interface Production Based on Virtue Ethics  Part II: Academic Discourse in Digital Publics  6. Feminist Research on the Toxic Web: The Ethics of Access, Affective Labor, and Harassment  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  8. Professorial Outrage: Enthymemic Assumptions  Part III: Cultural Narratives in Hostile Discourses  9. Hateful Games: Why White Supremacist Recruiters Target Gamers and How to Stop Them  10. Theorycraft and Online Harassment: Mobilizing Status Quo Warriors  11. Volatile Visibility: How Online Harassment Makes Women Disappear  Part IV: Circulation and Amplification of Digital Aggression  12. Confronting Digital Aggression with an Ethics of Circulation  13. The Banality of Digital Aggression: Algorithmic Data Surveillance in Medical Wearables  14. Fostering Phronesis in Digital Rhetorics: Developing a Rhetorical and Ethical Approach to Online Engagements

O autorze

Jessica Reyman is Associate Professor of Digital Rhetoric and Professional Writing in the Department of English at Northern Illinois University, USA. Her research focuses on law and ethics in digital rhetoric, and she has published the monograph The Rhetoric of Intellectual Property: Copyright Law and the Regulation of Digital Culture (Routledge,2010), as well as numerous peer reviewed articles and book chapters.

Erika M. Sparby is Assistant Professor of Digital Rhetoric and Technical Communication at Illinois State University, USA. Her research interests include online aggression, memes, identity, and digital ethics, and her work has appeared in Computers and Composition. Her dissertation, Memes and 4chan and Haters, Oh My! Rhetoric, Identity, and Online Aggression, won the 2017 Hugh Burns Best Dissertation Award.