In the world we live in, body image is always a self conscious issue,because nobody is perfect but everyone tries to be in some way. Editor Erin Cunningham, wrote”Our Photoshopping Disorder” to explain the false ways media influences harmful and unrealistic expectations, towards people especially women. Professor Clay Shirky, is also against media in his article,”Why I just Asked My Students To Put Away Their Laptops”, by pointing out to the people, that distractions such as media can conflict learning. Even Multi-tasking, everyone attempts, but never accomplishes it because the distractions from one task to another, in his case classwork to notifications. Imagine the impact the media has within your own health?…
This certainly is a cowardly and shallow response from the audience to such a scene, though the response should not be attributed to the forms of new media used by the students, but instead to human nature itself for there are plenty of similar incidences from the past were an audience acted with the same level of pusillanimity as that in Lam’s example. Of those alarmed by the societal changes brought about by new media, there seems to be a common tendency to invoke “good old days” sentiment. Usually this pandering to the credulous comes in the form similar to Sherry Turkle’s statement “In the past, one waited for the sound of the post – by carriage, by foot, by truck. Now, when there is a lull, we check our emails, texts, and messages” (Turkle,2011). This kind of attitude is baseless and simply reactionary yet it is held by many of the commentators on the effects of new media.…
We all know those people that can not peel themselves from their technology, whether it’s the CEO of a major business or a teenage girl, they walk with their faces lit with the screaming brightness of a phone. In modern society, if a person is found on social media it is considered cool, while reading is not. Recent society has become caught up in the latest movies, fashion trends, and social media. Ray Bradbury wrote of this happening all the way back in the 1950s! He wrote science fiction where humans have become obsessed with technology, nowadays, that is called reality.…
I will be analyzing The Dangers of Digital Distractedness by Lauren Shinozuka on page 145 of Writing Arguments. This article claims that technology is harming society because it promotes an unproductive habit of multitasking, dehumanizes our relationships, and encourages a distorted self-image. I will be examining the various types of rhetorical strategies and evidence the author uses and how effective they are at persuading the reader in this article. This article uses not so much ethos, but plenty of pathos and logos.…
I am writing to applaud you regarding your article “Words Triumph Over Images”. So many people today go straight to the tv to get their news and current events. We live in a world where we believe everything we see on tv, even though the stories are often not true and provide a shock factor. Tv can be much more entertaining than reading it in the newspaper or hearing it on the radio, however many tv stations and journalists just want people to watch so they will say things that get the attention of the viewers many times without checking out the sources. You referenced how Mayor C. Ray Nagin said that “most likely, thousands of bodies would be discovered amid the carnage”.…
McLuhan states that, “Our conventional response to all media, namely that is how they are used that counts, is the numb stance of the technological idiot. For the ‘content’ of a medium is like the juicy piece of meat carried by the burglar to distract the watchdog of the mind.” People are susceptible to everything they see and hear. They will believe and do almost anything the media tells them to. +Using the foundation of McLuhan’s essay “The Medium is the Message,” one can see how certain mediums affect our reactions through daily encounters.…
Bradbury and Vonnegut wrote about events that they believed the future would become. Bradbury’s novel “Fahrenheit 451” was a twist on the job of firemen. Where as in Vonnegut’s short story “Harrison Bergeron” was written about the future where everyone was equal. Bradbury and Vonnegut were both visionaries on what they predicted would happen in the future. Some predictions that the authors made came true.…
Although there are various solutions to the problem they all lack certain aspects and do not address the education and safety of concussions fully. What are the current methods and what is wrong with them? One of the most abundant ways that scholars and those who are sympathetic to the cause of educating about concussions, educate about concussions in the digital era is by creating an app. But what is the digital era? The digital era as defined by Jill Shepherd, a professor at the University of Strathclyde, UK, is “characterized by technology which increases the speed and breadth of knowledge turnover within the economy and society” (Shepherd, Abstract).…
Everyone has insecurities and everyone wants to fit in. We live in a world where people change the way they look and act for others acceptance. Nobody wants to be the odd one and we “wait until someone else does it first”(13) My main focus will be on the poem “Nonconformist” by Angela Shelf Medearis the author talks about how others follow the herd and are too afraid to be themselves . I will explore how the media has a big impact on the way others feel about themselves.…
One way to see that argument is strong is by examining kairos. Truthfully, this essay was written at the right time in history, which is what kairos measure. In 2011, the author was written about “ a nation of vidiots.” during that time, the entertainment industry has been launched worldwide. Therefore, a lot of people know about the smart phone has just been released to the public.…
As I noted in my paper, while it was the hardest to write, the rhetorical analysis allowed me to see the video “as a life lesson and not something satirical.” This essay helped me figure out that things happen for a reason. Digging deep into Taylor Swift’s “Blank Space” music video and analyzing the rhetor, their message, and their intended audience with the use of pathos, logos, and ethos helped me understand why Swift cannot stay in a relationship for long by paying attention to the little details in the video. By helping me “see that there are ethical, logical, and emotional values in real world situations,” writing this essay also helped me realize that rhetorical analysis can be applied to other situations besides writing an analysis paper, such as advertisements and commercials. Applying rhetorical analysis in certain situations helps me avoid jumping to the wrong conclusions about some people and instead understand their way of thinking and their…
Neil Postman’s 1985 novel “Amusing Ourselves to Death” presents many interesting and well-thought out claims, one of the major ones being about television and the dangers it presents to society. His main points on this subject pertaining to the fact …”that television has reduced our ability to take the world seriously.” By this, Postman is addressing the fact that all the information we receive now is through the television. Leading into one of his largest, and debatably most important, assertions, our society is morphing into something similar to Aldous Huxley’s “A Brave New World”. Where the people are controlled by entertainment and pleasure.…
Censorship and the effect it has on social media. The world has been changing over the years and with it society has been changing as well. Now, change might not always be for a negative result but it can confuse many people; in their way of thinking and even the way of behavior. There will always be people trying to express themselves in ways other people do no understand and think it is wrong because that was the way they were thought and raise.…
Cyberpunk There is much controversy on the topic of whether or not technology hinders today’s generation and the influences it has on our future. Cyberpunk is a subgenre of science fiction in a future setting, prominent for its focus on "high tech and low life". Generally centered on a conflict among artificial intelligences or a mega corporation, cyberpunk does a great job of taking the technology resources we have now and heightening them but not too much to where it doesn’t seem tangible. The cyberpunk genre also sheds a light on this dependency we as humans have on our personal gadgets. We invest so much of our time and money trying to keep up with the “next big thing” and staying relevant that we become consumed by the very thing that…
But when comparing our own circumstances against that of Facebook, we become our own worst enemy – as the digital persona portrayed on this social network only highlights the ‘best bits’ from our short Facebook timeline, in stark contrast to our entire life’s work. Need any more proof on just how damaging social media can be? Look to DoSomething.org, America’s largest not-for-profit for the younger generation and social change. Its 9 Ways Technology Affects Mental Health article brings to light several afflictions social media has on mental health, including depression, isolation, insecurity and more recently, FOMO, also known as “Fear Of Missing Out.”…