ABSTRACT

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.

Chapter 9 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at https://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license. 

chapter 1|14 pages

Introduction

Toward an Ethic of Responsibility in Digital Aggression

part I|70 pages

Ethics of Interfaces and Platforms

part II|56 pages

Academic Labor in Digital Publics

chapter 6|17 pages

Feminist Research on the Toxic Web

The Ethics of Access, Affective Labor, and Harassment

chapter 7|19 pages

“Maybe She Can Be a Feminist and Still Claim Her Own Opinions?”

The Story of an Accidental Counter-Troll, A Treatise in 9 Movements

chapter 8|18 pages

Professorial Outrage

Enthymemic Assumptions

part III|54 pages

Cultural Narratives in Hostile Discourses

chapter 9|17 pages

Hateful Games

Why White Supremacist Recruiters Target Gamers

chapter 10|19 pages

Theorycraft and Online Harassment

Mobilizing Status Quo Warriors

chapter 11|16 pages

Volatile Visibility

How Online Harassment Makes Women Disappear

part IV|53 pages

Circulation and Amplification of Digital Aggression

chapter 13|17 pages

The Banality of Digital Aggression

Algorithmic Data Surveillance in Medical Wearables

chapter 14|17 pages

Fostering Phronesis in Digital Rhetorics

Developing a Rhetorical and Ethical Approach to Online Engagements