Micro Issues

$1.$ Is doxxing, as it was used in this case, ethical? Justify your answer.

$2.$ Is your answer based on whether you feel that the ones doing the

$$doxxing$$ are on your preferred side of the issue? If$,$ as Wired points

out, doxxing becomes the $$preferred tactic$$ for both sides of an

issue, does your opinion change on the ethics of doxxing?

$3.$ Critique this statement by Smith: $$I think their communities need to

know who they are.$$

Midrange Issues

$1.$ Many communities have seen tabloids crop up where people who

are arrested on violations such as drug possession or DWI have

their $$mug shot$$ put into a tabloid for sale near the cash register of

a convenience store even before they are formally charged with a

crime. In what way, if any, does doxxing differ from this practice?

$2.$ What could be the $$greater good,$$ if any, that would justify doxxing

in a case such as this?

Mass Media in a Democratic Society $193$

$3.$ Logan Smith is a private individual who runs a Twitter site. Should

the Raleigh newspaper have given his decision to publish photos of

bystanders in the Charlottesville crowd a larger audience through an

article in their pages? Does their article imply endorsement of what

he did?

Macro Issues

$1.$ The Charlottesville protest was one of the biggest news stories of

$2017.$ After you look up this incident online, critique the $$blame on

both sides$$ statement by President Trump.

$2.$ The author of the Wired quote says that the two sides of the

racial divide use $$different logic$$ to justify their use of the tactic.

What, exactly, are the two sides, and what would be the logic

that each would use in reaching a decision to use doxxing as a

tactic?