Sherry Turgle Making USupid Analysis

Technology’s effect on people, especially younger generations, has been highly debated. Many people take very strong stances on the subject and tend to feel very passionate about their stance. This leads to people with the same viewpoints to deliver their messages I very different ways. Some of these deliveries tend to be much more effective than others. An example of two people with similar view points, but different deliveries is Sherry Turkle, and Nicolas Carr. Both believe that technology is pushing humans to places they do not want to go however the deliveries make the messages seem more or less aggressive. In “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” Carr makes his points much more effectively because he is less aggressive in his tone, uses stronger …show more content…
Carr attempts to avoid this by making his observations seem aggressive by pointing out he has had been effected as well, “I can feel it, too. Over the past few years I’ve had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain, remapping the neural circuitry, reprogramming the memory.” (Carr) This makes his tone less aggressive because he is now not only pointing out flaws in the society, but as well as in himself making the reader believe he is also on their side. By relating to the reader he forms a relationship that reads not as accusatory, but more relatable. If he had not added this personal analog his points could have come across as more attacking to the reader rather than relating to the reader themselves. Whereas Turkle made the audience a separate being that was falling into the trap of technology. “People talk to me about the important new skill of making eye contact while texting” (Turkle). By using the tone that she is not a part of this and believes that possibly making eye contact while texting is ridiculous she automatically made the reader feel attacked even if they do not actually participate in this. Using the language people, she