The current debate that is sweeping the nation is that technology is changing the way we think and process information. We find ourselves fidgety and unable to focus on long paragraphs of reading causing us to skim because our brains cannot absorb that much information at a time. The main problem in today’s society is that we are depending on technology to give us the answer to any and every question we have in an instant. Most of the time we just open google, type in what we want to know and out shoots the answer. Nicholas Carr’s article, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”, published by The Atlantic, is just one of the articles that explain the effects that technology has on our way of thinking. Carr appeals to a combination of pathos and logos
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He states, “I think I know what’s going on. For more than a decade now, I’ve been spending a lot of time online, searching and surfing and sometimes adding to the great databases of the internet” (Carr 314). This personal testimony appeals to an empathetic point to his audience. He emphasizes that even he is so drawn into technology he contributes his own ideas on the world wide web. The audience would begin to think about how they contribute to the internet making his pathos appeal work.
His appeal to logos helps give the audiences supporting evidence to help his claims. Carr quotes James Olds, a professor of neuroscience that instructs the Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study at the George Mason University, says that, “even the adult mind ‘is very plastic.’ Nerve cells routinely break old connections and form new ones. ‘The brain,’ according to Olds, ‘has the ability to reprogram itself on the fly, altering the way it functions’” (Carr 319). This expert opinion ultimately and fully shapes Carr’s claim to the audience. This logic gives evidence that what Carr’s saying is …show more content…
He shows his concern through a self-reflective analysis which draws the audience to do the same with their own lives. He supports his concerns throughout his article appealing to pathos helps him engage his audience at a deeper center rather than just touching the surface of his concerns. Carr’s appeal to logos helps give evidence for his concerns and his deeper level of contact with his audience to wrap his claim together with each supporting argument. So, the question is… “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” Is this stupidity causing our brains to be
He states, “I think I know what’s going on. For more than a decade now, I’ve been spending a lot of time online, searching and surfing and sometimes adding to the great databases of the internet” (Carr 314). This personal testimony appeals to an empathetic point to his audience. He emphasizes that even he is so drawn into technology he contributes his own ideas on the world wide web. The audience would begin to think about how they contribute to the internet making his pathos appeal work.
His appeal to logos helps give the audiences supporting evidence to help his claims. Carr quotes James Olds, a professor of neuroscience that instructs the Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study at the George Mason University, says that, “even the adult mind ‘is very plastic.’ Nerve cells routinely break old connections and form new ones. ‘The brain,’ according to Olds, ‘has the ability to reprogram itself on the fly, altering the way it functions’” (Carr 319). This expert opinion ultimately and fully shapes Carr’s claim to the audience. This logic gives evidence that what Carr’s saying is …show more content…
He shows his concern through a self-reflective analysis which draws the audience to do the same with their own lives. He supports his concerns throughout his article appealing to pathos helps him engage his audience at a deeper center rather than just touching the surface of his concerns. Carr’s appeal to logos helps give evidence for his concerns and his deeper level of contact with his audience to wrap his claim together with each supporting argument. So, the question is… “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” Is this stupidity causing our brains to be