Title Rhetorical ethics and internetworked writing / by James E. Porter

Published Greenwich, Conn. ; London : Ablex, [1998] ©1998

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Description xiv, 203 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Series New directions in computers and composition studies New directions in computers and composition studies. Contents 1. Ethics in Internetworked Writing Classrooms and Communities -- 2. Recovering an Ethics for Rhetoric and Writing: Classical and Modern Views -- 3. Recovering an Ethics for Rhetoric and Writing: Postmodern Views -- 4. Complicating Rhetorical-Ethical Stances -- 5. Legal and Ethical Issues in Cyberspace -- 6. The Exercise of Critical Rhetorical Ethics -- 7. Framing Postmodern Commitment and Solidarity -- App. Electronic Resources for Ethical Inquiry Summary Rhetorical Ethics and Internetworked Writing develops rhetoric theory as a heuristic tool for addressing the new ethical and legal complexities cyberwriters and writing teachers face on the Internet and World Wide Web. Porter conceptualizes rhetoric as an ethical operation (first by examining the rhetoric-ethics relationship in classical and modern rhetoric, then by turning to postmodern ethics, which revives a casuistic approach to ethics). In the second half of the book, Porter considers special cases involving electronic discourse on the networks that challenge or undermine conventional print-based law and ethics Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes Subject English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching -- Moral and ethical aspects. English language -- Computer-assisted instruction -- Moral and ethical aspects. World Wide Web -- Moral and ethical aspects. Report writing -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Moral and ethical aspects. Report writing -- Data processing -- Moral and ethical aspects. Electronic discussion groups -- Moral and ethical aspects. Internet -- Moral and ethical aspects. Electronic mail systems -- Moral and ethical aspects. College teaching -- Moral and ethical aspects. Rhetoric -- Moral and ethical aspects. ISBN 1567503233 paperback 1567503225 cased

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