[Get Solution] Where Anonymity Breeds Contempt

Read “Where Anonymity Breeds Contempt” out of Models for Writers on pages 87-90. Then on pages 90-91, respond to the questions labeled “Questions for Study and Discussion” which are question numbers 1-6.

Questions for Study and Discussion

1. What is Zhuo’s thesis, and where does she state it?

2. What problem does Zhuo address in this essay? How does her thesis offer an approach to this problem?

3. Why does Zhuo think Plato’s story about the ring of Gyges (4) is relevant to Internet users?

4. How does Zhuo define the “online disinhibition effect” (6)? Which of Zhuo’s examples of this effect do you find most powerful? (Glossary: Definition)

5. Zhuo identifies anonymity as a source of the problem. How does she think Internet culture allows, or even encourages, users to remain anonymous?

6. At the beginning of her essay, Zhuo says a troll can lurk “among dozens of well-intentioned opinions” (1). What does this say about the balance of thoughtful responses and inflammatory

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