Rhetoric of Outrage

Rhetoric of Outrage

Why Social Media Is Making Us Angry

  • Autor: Rice, Jeff
  • Editor: University of South Carolina Press
  • ISBN: 9781643363974
  • eISBN Pdf: 9781643363981
  • Lloc de publicació:  South Carolina , United States
  • Any de publicació digital: 2023
  • Mes: Maig
  • Pàgines: 221
  • Idioma: Anglés

An accessible and important look at what is truly behind our digital outrage

On any given day, at any given hour, across the various platforms constituting what we call social media, someone is angry. Facebook. Instagram. Twitter. Reddit. 4Chan. In The Rhetoric of Outrage: Why Social Media is Making Us Angry Jeff Rice addresses the critical question of why anger has become the dominant digital response on social media. He examines the theoretical and rhetorical explanations for the intense rage that prevails across social media platforms, and sheds new light on how our anger isn't merely a reaction against singular events, but generated out of aggregated beliefs and ideas. Captivating, accessible, and exceedingly important, The Rhetoric of Outrage encourages readers to have the difficult conversations about what is truly behind their anger.

  • Cover
  • The Rhetoric of Outrage
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • One. Outrage Theory
  • Two. Affective Outrage
  • Three. Technological Outrage
  • Four. Digital Outragicity
  • Five. Photographic Outrage
  • Six. Algorithmic Outrage
  • Seven. Enthymemic Outrage
  • Eight. Epideictic Outrage
  • Nine. The Discourse: An Outrage Conclusion
  • Works Cited
  • Index