The Rhetoric of Outrage

Why Social Media Is Making Us Angry

Author: Jeff Rice

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, Professor Jeff Rice addresses the increasingly critical question of why anger has become the dominant digital response on social media.

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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 Professor Jeff Rice addresses the increasingly 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 subversive, aggregated beliefs and ideas. Captivating, accessible, and exceedingly important, The Rhetoric of Outrage: Why Social Media Is Making Us Angry encourages readers to have the difficult conversations about what is truly behind their anger.

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[Rice] deftly investigates how outrage has become the defining--and default--response on digital and social platforms. [...] The book smartly offers no secret solutions to stopping online outrage and instead proves, over and over, that it is a feature, not a bug, of digital culture.

-- "Choice"