Rhetorical ethics and internetworked writing
By: James E. Porter.
Series: New directions in computers and composition studies
Publisher: Ablex Pub.
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Greenwich, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 201
Subjects: English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching -- Moral and ethical aspects; English language -- Computer network resources -- 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
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.