The Rhetoric of Outrage

"Shakespeare may have acknowledged the 'winter of our discontent,' yet Jeff Rice writes about an ongoing era of discontent that permeates our global psyche, building a case for outrage as the predominant digital response that is both medium and technology. The extent to which Rice succeeds in exhaustively documenting how pervasively anger circulates affectively, algorithmically, and rhetorically may itself enrage, but will never disappoint, given Rice's continued stature and skill as digital rhetoric's foremost social theorist."—Kristine L. Blair, dean, McAnulty College and Graduate School of Liberal Arts, Duquesne University

"[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