Guiding Questions Porter considers the various roles we may occupy in relation to internetworked writing (18):
These are simply broad strokes of the various combinations of roles "we" may occupy, and Porter guides his inquiry based on three questions :
- participants, publishers and writers of electronic discourse
- managers of electronic communities
- teachers of internetworked classrooms
These guiding questions serve as useful point of departure for eventually outlining his central themes of rhetorical ethics in Chapter 7.
- In these roles, "[h]ow should we constitute and situate ourselves ethically..."?
- What ethical problems can we expect to face?
- What stances should we adopt and what principles should we invoke in the face of postmodern thinking where our traditional notion of ethics is no longer satisfactory?
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