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Digital Ethics Rhetoric and Responsibility in Online Aggression Digital Ethics delves into the shifting legal and ethical dimensions of digital ecologies and explores productive approaches for theorizing, un- derstanding, and responding to difficult ethical issues online. Contributions from leading scholars address how changing technolo- gies and media over the last decade have both created new ethical quan- daries 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, this collec- tion will further digital rhetoric scholars’ inquiry into digital ethics and writing instructors’ approaches to teaching ethics in the current techno- logical 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. Jessica Reyman is an Associate Professor of Digital Rhetoric and Pro- fessional Writing in the Department of English at Northern Illinois Uni- versity, USA. Her research focuses on law and ethics in digital rhetoric, and she is the author of The Rhetoric of Intellectual Property: Copy- right Law and the Regulation of Digital Culture (Routledge, 2010). Her research has also appeared in journals such as Rhetoric Review, Col- lege English, Computers and Composition, Technical Communication Quarterly, and College Composition and Communication. Erika M. Sparby is an Assistant Professor of Digital Rhetoric and Tech- nical 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. Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication The Aboutness of Writing Center Talk A Corpus-Driven and Discourse Analysis Jo Mackiewicz Rhetorical Realism Rhetoric, Ethics, and the Ontology of Things Scot Barnett American Political Discourse on China Michelle Murray Yang Professional Communication and Network Interaction A Rhetorical and Ethical Approach Heidi A. McKee and James E. Porter The Rhetoric of Videogames as Embodied Practice Procedural Habits Steve Holmes Orwell’s “Politics and the English Language” in the Age of Pseudocracy Hans Ostrom and William Haltom The Rhetoric of Oil in the Twenty-First Century Government, Corporate, and Activist Discourses Heather Graves and David Beard Digital Ethics Rhetoric and Responsibility in Online Aggression Edited by Jessica Reyman and Erika M. Sparby For more information about this series, please visit: https://www.routledge.com Digital Ethics Rhetoric and Responsibility in Online Aggression Edited by Jessica Reyman and Erika M. Sparby First published 2020 by Routledge 52 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York, NY 10017 and by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2020 Taylor & Francis The right of Jessica Reyman and Erika M. Sparby to be identified as the authors of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A catalog record for this title has been requested ISBN: 978-0-367-21795-2 (hbk) ISBN: 978-0-429-26614-0 (ebk) Typeset in Sabon by codeMantra For anyone who has been a target of digital aggression and harassment. Contents List of Figures xi Acknowledgments xiii Foreword: Interacting with Friends, Enemies, and Strangers xv JAMES E. PORTER List of Contributors xxiii 1 Introduction: Toward an Ethic of Responsibility in Digital Aggression 1 JESSICA REYMAN AND ERIkA M. SPARBY PART I Ethics of Interfaces and Platforms 15 2 Hateware and the Outsourcing of Responsibility 17 JAMES J. BROWN, JR. AND GREGORY HENNIS 3 Values versus Rules in Social Media Communities: How Platforms Generate Amorality on reddit and Facebook 33 MICHAEl TRICE, lIzA POTTS, AND REBEkAH SMAll 4 Finding Effective Moderation Practices on Twitch 51 TABITHA M. lONDON, JOEY CRUNDWEll, MARCY BOCk EASTlEY, NATAlIE SANTIAGO, AND JENNIFER JENkINS 5 A Pedagogy of Ethical Interface Production Based on Virtue Ethics 69 JOHN R. GAllAGHER viii Contents PART II Academic Labor in Digital Publics 85 6 Feminist Research on the Toxic Web: The Ethics of Access, Affective Labor, and Harassment 87 lEIGH GRUWEll 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 104 VYSHAlI MANIVANNAN 8 Professorial Outrage: Enthymemic Assumptions 123 JEFF RICE PART III Cultural Narratives in Hostile Discourses 141 9 Hateful Games: Why White Supremacist Recruiters Target Gamers 143 MEGAN CONDIS 10 Theorycraft and Online Harassment: Mobilizing Status Quo Warriors 160 AlISHA kARABINUS 11 Volatile Visibility: How Online Harassment Makes Women Disappear 179 BRIDGET GElMS PART IV Circulation and Amplification of Digital Aggression 195 12 Confronting Digital Aggression with an Ethics of Circulation 197 BRANDY DIETERlE, DUSTIN EDWARDS, AND PAUl “DAN” MARTIN Contents ix 13 The Banality of Digital Aggression: Algorithmic Data Surveillance in Medical Wearables 214 kRISTA kENNEDY AND NOAH WIlSON 14 Fostering Phronesis in Digital Rhetorics: Developing a Rhetorical and Ethical Approach to Online Engagements 231 kATHERINE DElUCA Index 249