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Digital Ethics: Rhetoric and Responsibility in Online Aggression

New York; London: Routledge (2020), xxvii, 254 pp.

Series: Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication

ISBN 9781032177571 (pbk); 9780429266140 (online)

1 Introduction: Toward an Ethic of Responsibility in Digital Aggression / Jessica Reyman and Erika M. Sparby, 1
I. ETHICS OF INTERFACES AND PLATFORMS
2 Hateware and the Outsourcing of Responsibility / James J. Brown Jr. and Gregory C. Hennis III, 17
3 Values vs. Rules in Social Media Communities: How Platforms Generate Amorality on reddit and Facebook / Michael Trice, Liza Potts, and Rebekah Small, 33
4 Finding Effective Moderation Practices on Twitch / Tabitha M. London, Joey Crundwell, Marcy Bock Eastley, Natalie Santiago, and Jennifer Jenkins, 55
5 A Pedagogy of Ethical Interface Production Based on Virtue Ethics / John R. Gallagher, 69
II. ACADEMIC DISCOURSE IN DIGITAL PUBLICS
6 Feminist Research on the Toxic Web: The Ethics of Access, Affective Labor, and Harassment / Leigh Gruwell, 87
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 / Vyshali Manivannan, 104
8 Professorial Outrage: Enthymemic Assumptions / Jeff Rice, 123
III. CULTURAL NARRATIVES IN HOSTILE DISCOURSES
9 Hateful Games: Why White Supremacist Recruiters Target Gamers and How to Stop Them / Megan Condis, 143
10 Theorycraft and Online Harassment: Mobilizing Status Quo Warriors / Alisha Karabinus, 160
11 Volatile Visibility: How Online Harassment Makes Women Disappear / Bridget Gelms, 179
CIRCULATION AND AMPLIFICATION OF DIGITAL AGGRESSION
12 Confronting Digital Aggression with an Ethics of Circulation / Brandy Dieterle, Dustin Edwards, and Paul "Dan" Martin, 197
13 The Banality of Digital Aggression: Algorithmic Data Surveillance in Medical Wearables / Krista Kennedy and Noah Wilson, 214
14 Fostering Phronesis in Digital Rhetorics: Developing a Rhetorical and Ethical Approach to Online Engagements / Katherine DeLuca, 231