Introduction: toward an ethic of responsibility in digital aggression / Jessica Reyman and Erika M Sparby -- Part I. Ethics of interfaces and platforms -- Hateware and the outsourcing of responsibility / James J. Brown, Jr. and Gregory Hennis -- Values versus rules in social media communities: how platforms generate amorality on reddit and Facebook / Michael Trice, Liza Potts and Rebekah Small -- Finding effective moderation practices on Twitch / Tabitha M. London, Joey Crundwell, Marcy Bock Eastley, Natalie Santiago and Jennifer Jenkins -- A pedagogy of ethical interface production based on virtue ethics / John R. Gallagher -- Part II. Academic labor in digital publics -- Feminist research on the toxic web: the ethics of access, affective labor and harrassment / Leigh Gruwell -- "Maybe she can be a feminist and still claim her own opinions?": the story of an accidental counter-troll, a treatise in 9 movements / Vyshali Manivannan -- Professorial outrage: enthymemic assumptions / Jeff Rice -- Part III. Cultural narratives in hostile discourses -- Hateful games: why white supremacist recruiters target gamers / Megan Condis -- Theorycraft and online harrassment: mobilizing status quo warriors / Alisha Karabinus -- Volatile visibility: how online harrassment makes women disappear / Bridget Gelms -- Part IV. Circulation and amplification of digital aggression -- Confronting digital aggression with an ethics of circulation / Brandy Dieterle, Dustin Edwards and Paul "Dan" Martin -- The banality of digital aggression: algorithmic data surveillance in medical wearables / Krista Kennedy and Noah Wilson -- Fostering phronesis in digital rhetorics: developing a rhetorical and ethical approach to online engagements / Katherine Deluca -- Index.
Summary:
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.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.