A Rhetorical Analysis Of Miss Jamison's Print Is Dead

Rhetorical Analysis of Print is Dead What happened to paper? Is print the past. When reading the text of "Print is Dead" Miss Jamison introduces the idea that a culture of magazines, once very prominent and large, is now slowly being terminated by technology now used by online media. The notion that print is dying is surely one to take with a grain of salt, as print today is now filled with craft and sharpness. While magazines were out in the bunches in the past to bring information, today we have the Internet. Magazines today are now very professional, known as indie magazines they are one of the most top crafted and detail oriented magazines in the market. Miss Jamison introduces the idea that these magazines are a product of the technological advances we face today. When something is in print, it is physically there and why would anyone want to bother with physicality's like printing when all the information you …show more content…
She infers that print is dying just like the title of her writing piece. She quickly dismisses a predisposition that individual readers have about reading. As readers we read the title and think to ourselves that “this must be about said title”. Miss Jamison does something rather quickly to dismiss the idea that " print is dying". She introduces the subject about thriving indie magazines that is nowhere to be found within the title. In the following part of the text there is evidence how Davison introduces indie magazines; Fewer magazines may be being bought in total, but the number of titles on offer has never been greater. While the old-school, advertising-reliant magazine industry is shrinking, business is booming for a new generation of independent mags, which tend to be niche, largely ad-free, ideas-led, design focused and reader funded.